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.
 

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

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

Carson McCullers in 1961
 

John Cheever, 1979
 

Angela Carter
 

Tennessee Williams at work, Key West, 1957
 

Françoise Sagan, 1955
 

Philip Roth at work
 

William Faulkner, Hollywood, 1940s
 

Margaret Drabble, London 1974
 

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

Brendan Behan at work in the 1960s
 

Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie
 
With thanks to Ken Cargill, via the Guardian
 

Oh, this is very very nice!  Thanks for including Angela Carter!

This brings tears to my eyes.

WHERE’S MY BURROUGHS, METZGER?

i guess it would be easier to find one of him with a gun…

oh, sorry.  this is the guardian not you.

and it was paul gallagher.

man, i should really read the whole thing rather than just scrolling to the bottom and hitting CAPS LOCK.

Totally great images!  This could be a whole new genre of collectable photographs for the lit enthusiast!

Brendan Behan!!! He’s one of my favorite playwrights and one rarely hears about him nowadays.

Amazing collection! What a job writing is… people who know people so well locked away for years… phew.

Thanks for the J.G. Ballard photo.
I suppose the Guardian could also have run the photo of HST shooting his typewriter in the snow!

Manual typwriters are still being manufactured by Olivetti and Royal, probably others too.

I would add the lovely Margaret Mitchell:    http://tinyurl.com/mmtyping