Famous Writers and their Typewriters

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Famous Writers and their Typewriters

In 1994 I read The Sun Also Rises, my first of many from Hemmingway. That’s when I knew I had found my all-time favorite writer. That was also a time before the internet had completely taken over everything and the idea that a writer might still work behind the romantic veil of a typewriter was still a reality. Just imagining the sounds of the clicks of a classic typewriter makes my head swim with romantic thoughts. And maybe that’s why I fell so head over heels with The Modern Period of literature and writers like Steinbeck, Williams, Fitzgerald, and Orwell.

So it’s of course no surprise that this collection of photos gives me a literary boner. I mean, just look at how completely badass Hemmingway looks. I want to be him. I want to be drinking a daiquiri right at this very moment at the El Floridita Bar in Havana. At least I can enjoy the photo set and just imagine what might be going on in these writers’ heads at the time the photos were taken.

Big-ups to Jondo community member Anna Badua for the awesome find. Here are a few of my personal favorites out of nineteen photos in the series.

Agatha Christie