Writers at their typewriters

John Cheever at his home,
New York, 1979.

Photograph:
Paul Hosefros

Philip Roth sitting at typewriter
seen through panes of window.


Photograph:
Bob Peterson

Martin Amis in 1981.

Photograph:
Martin Lawrence

Carson McCullers in 1961.

Photograph:
Time & Life Pictures

Patricia Highsmith at home
in Moncourt, near Fontainebleau,
in 1976.

Photograph:
Jacques Pavlovsky

William Faulkner on a balcony,
Hollywood in the early 1940s.

Photograph:
Alfred Eriss

Tennessee Williams searches for an idea
in his Key West studio in 1957.

Photograph:
Bettmann Corbis

Credit:
The Guardian