Literary Traveler was mentioned in the May 05, 2008 issue of Forbes, along with our partner Classical Pursuits. For more information on 2008 & 2009 tours Please visit them at ClassicalPursuits.com.

Scrivner's Holiday

Want to see where great literature was wrought? Take a factory tour

Deborah Lindsay, wife of an Atlanta restaurateur, logs 75,000 air miles a year on pleasure trips. She's been to Tuscany, Machu Picchu, Egypt, India, China, the Baltic, Turkey, Paris and Alaska. Fun as those trips were, something was lacking. She wanted a deeper understanding of the places and cultures she was visiting. So she signed up for a literary tour.

In October 2006 she returned to Paris, this time with assigned reading given her by Classical Pursuits, a Toronto literary tour company. Among 13 fellow travelers on the seven-day experience were several retired professors. The group's guide took them to cafes once frequented by Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other Lost Generation writers. "We spent two mornings [discussing] a Fitzgerald short story," Lindsay recalls. Never before had she appreciated, for example, why Paris had drawn so many U.S. expat writers of the 1920s and 1930s: "It was because [the U.S.] had Prohibition and because Europe was a bargain."

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