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