Place and Identity (Part 3 of 10)

J. D. McClatchy has traveled the U.S. visiting the homes of classic American writers. Joan Didion talks about her native California; Jonathan Lethem describes growing up in Brooklyn; and Toni Morrison describes the creation of an imaginary home, a hotel, in her most-recent novel.

• You can also read an overview of the series or excerpts from:

• J. D. McClatchy's American Writers at Home

• Toni Morrison's Love

• Joan Didion's Where I was From

• Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude