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Key workers: writers at their typewriters - in pictures

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Journalist Hunter S Thompson working at his ranch circa 1976 near Aspen Colorado. Photograph: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Bonjour Tristesse author Françoise Sagan in 1955. Photograph: Thomas D. McAvoy/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Agatha Christie behind her desk with towers of her own books piled around her. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Margaret Drabble in the study of her London home in 1974. Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Tennessee Williams searches for an idea in his Key West studio in 1957. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Angela Carter sits in her office before a typewriter with baskets filled with waste paper and books and papers at her feet. Photograph: Mike Laye/Corbis
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Helen Gurley Brown at home in her Park Avenue apartment in 1965. Photograph: Corbis
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
JG Ballard at work in his Shepperton home in 1989. Photograph: David Montgomery/Getty Images
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
John Cheever at his home in Ossining, New York in 1979. Photograph: Paul Hosefros/Getty Images
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Ralph Ellison at work in Rome in 1957. Photograph: James Whitmore/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
William Faulkner works on a screenplay on a balcony, Hollywood in the early 1940s. Photograph: Alfred Eriss/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
Ernest Hemingway is shown at his typewriter as he works on For Whom the Bell Tolls at Sun Valley lodge, Idaho, in 1939. Photograph: AP
Authors and typewriters: Authors and typewriters
George Bernard Shaw at work in 1929. Photograph: PA
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Martin Amis in 1981. Photograph: Martin Lawrence / Daily Mail
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Patricia Highsmith at home in the village of Moncourt, near Fontainebleau, in 1976. Photograph: Jacques Pavlovsky/Sygma/Corbis
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Carson McCullers in 1961. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures
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Poet, novelist, dramatist, ballad singer and house-painter Brendan Behan at work in the early 60s/ Photograph: Daniel Farson/Getty Images
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Author 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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