Friday, June 3, 2011

Writters and typerwriters

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Hunter S. Thompson at work in his ranch in Aspen, 1976

Since Mark Twain battered out the first typed manuscript in 1883, writers have had a love affair with their typewriters. To mark the end of the manufacture of these instruments for creativity, the Guardian published a fine selection of key writers at work on their typewriters.

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Patricia Highsmith at work in her home in Moncourt, near Fontainebleau, in 1976

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J. G. Ballard at work in his home in Shepperton, 1989

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Carson McCullers in 1961

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John Cheever, 1979

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Angela Carter

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Tennessee Williams at work, Key West, 1957

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Françoise Sagan, 1955

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Philip Roth at work

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William Faulkner, Hollywood, 1940s

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Margaret Drabble, London 1974

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Ernest Hemingway at work on ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’, 1939

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Brendan Behan at work in the 1960s

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Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie

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Key Writers: Photos of writers and their typewriters

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