Key workers: writers at their typewriters - in pictures
Journalist Hunter S Thompson working at his ranch circa 1976 near Aspen Colorado. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesBonjour Tristesse author Françoise Sagan in 1955.Photograph: Thomas D. McAvoy/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageAgatha Christie behind her desk with towers of her own books piled around her.Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
Margaret Drabble in the study of her London home in 1974. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty ImagesTennessee Williams searches for an idea in his Key West studio in 1957. Photograph: Bettmann/CorbisAngela Carter sits in her office before a typewriter with baskets filled with waste paper and books and papers at her feet. Photograph: Mike Laye/CorbisHelen Gurley Brown at home in her Park Avenue apartment in 1965. Photograph: CorbisJG Ballard at work in his Shepperton home in 1989.Photograph: David Montgomery/Getty ImagesJohn Cheever at his home in Ossining, New York in 1979. Photograph: Paul Hosefros/Getty ImagesRalph Ellison at work in Rome in 1957.Photograph: James Whitmore/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageWilliam Faulkner works on a screenplay on a balcony, Hollywood in the early 1940s. Photograph: Alfred Eriss/Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImageErnest Hemingway is shown at his typewriter as he works on For Whom the Bell Tolls at Sun Valley lodge, Idaho, in 1939. Photograph: APGeorge Bernard Shaw at work in 1929.Photograph: PAMartin Amis in 1981. Photograph: Martin Lawrence / Daily MailPatricia Highsmith at home in the village of Moncourt, near Fontainebleau, in 1976.Photograph: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/CorbisCarson McCullers in 1961. Photograph: Time & Life PicturesPoet, novelist, dramatist, ballad singer and house-painter Brendan Behan at work in the early 60s/Photograph: Daniel Farson/Getty ImagesAuthor Philip Roth sitting at typewriter seen through panes of window, at Yaddo artist's retreat. Photograph: Bob Peterson/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
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