1.   Before leaving Herakleion, visit the Historical Museum and the upstairs rooms dedicated to the famed Cretan writer, Nikos Kazantzakis.

2.   The famed writer, whose San Francisco Chronicle column was a daily habit for three generations of readers, died early Saturday morning with lung cancer.

3.   The tour, developed by the Boston History Collaborative, includes sites in Boston, Cambridge, and Concord featuring famed writers homes, and places they gathered.

4.   Whatever perception the public holds of the famed French writer is an image carefully cultivated and crafted by Colette herself.

5.   Famed Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn was hospitalized with heart trouble earlier this month, hospital officials said Wednesday.

6.   The famed writer, tremendously influential in Colombia and the region, was not at his home in Mexico and could not be located for comment.