Literary Arts

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3-cent Joseph Pulitzer stamp

3-cent Joseph Pulitzer stamp

Find resources related to the literary arts on the National Postal Museum's website.

1-cent Americana - Inkwell and Quill stamp
Ray Bradbury
Exhibition

The Man, His Life and His Work
Ray Bradbury wrote numerous books, articles, poems and short stories and is remembered as one of the great science fiction and fantasy writers of the 20th century.

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42-cent Ruben Salazar stamp
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage - Ruben Salazar
Exhibition
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A solder reading a letter in the countryside with many letters scattered on the ground
War Letters: Lost and Found
November 11, 2005 - November 13, 2006
Exhibition

War Letters: Lost and Found featured original letters from the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam that were lost or abandoned and then rediscovered by strangers.

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painting of a young woman wearing a sunbonnet walking close to a log home
Art of the Stamp - Youth Classics: Little House on the Prairie
Exhibition
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39-cent Wild Thing stamp

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37 cent stamp featuring an illustration of Zora Neale Hurston

American Women Writers—and Readers

Enjoy this selection of Smithsonian Institution museum collection objects related to American women writers—and readers.

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