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Key Writers: Photos of writers and their typewriters

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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
 
With thanks to Ken Cargill, via the Guardian
 

 

Posted by Paul Gallagher
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05.13.2011
08:01 pm
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