Alex Haley House Visit the museum and boyhood home of Alex Haley, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Roots, in Henning. Visit the Alex Haley Museum »
Literary Arts
If you think music is Tennessee's only claim to artistic fame, think again.
Learn about Tennessee writers who changed the literary landscape, from critically acclaimed novelists to political lions. Learn about Pulitzer Prize winning writers like Tennessee Williams, James Agee and Cormac McCarthy. Follow the career of poet and children's writer Nikki Giovanni. Check out our Tennessee literary trivia for some quirky information on renowned explorers and comic book icons. Visit literary attractions such as historic libraries, burial places or famous writers' homes.
Be Afraid
Long before he was tapped to direct the “Spiderman” movies, Sam Raimi and friends thought it would be fun to make a low-budget horror film. The result was the much imitated 1982 cult horror film classic "The Evil Dead," filmed in and around an abandoned Morristown cabin.
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