Washington D.C. City Stories Edited by Patrick Allen with a Foreword by Alan Cheuse Contributors include: Henry Adams Louisa May Alcott A. R. Ammons Elizabeth Bishop Connie Briscoe Rita Mae Brown Christopher Buckley Alan Cheuse Charles Dickens Emily Dickinson Allen Drury Christopher Farley Carlos Fuentes Marita Golden Patricia Browning Griffith Essex Hemphill Langston Hughes Henry James Randall Jarrell Ward Just Garrison Keillor Ernest Kroll Archibald MacLeish Larry McMurtry Howard Nemerov Susan Richards Shreve Jean Toomer Frances Trollopev Mark Twain Gore Vidal Walt Whitman. From the early swamp days to the Civil War, the gilded age to the New Deal and McCarthy eras, as the center of world power to its underlying multicultural social fabric, Washington is a writer's town. In Washington D.C.: City Stories, the story of the capital of world power is finally told.