Unusual Places Where Authors Write Their Books

Authors are ususally thought to work in their private caves, or maybe they're hanging out at jazzy cafes or in library nooks tapping away on their laptops. I thought it'd be interesting to look at the more unusual locations where authors composed their books.

#1. Anthony Trollope wrote Lady Anna while aboard a ship.

#2. Gore Vidal wrote Williwaw) when he was 19 and based in the Aluetian Islands.

#3. Herman Wouk wrote The Caine Mutiny while aboard a ship, or so one of Wouk's shipmates claims: http://tiny.cc/7v661

#4. Harry Crews wrote some of his early novels while in a sweat lodge, or so one of his colleagues told me.

#5. Cervantes is said to have wrote Don Quixote while in prison at at Argamasilla in La Mancha.

#6. The irascible Ezra Pound wrote Pisan Cantos while interred by the American armed forces after his capture in Italy.

#7. Harry Whittington, "King of the Pulp Writers," once rented a solitary beach bungalow to get away from it all and write his novels.

#8. Raymond Carver. In the notes to one of his short story collections, he wrote about using an abandoned potters' shed as his writing bower.

Happy reading to you and yours!

By Ed Lynskey
Twitter: @edlynskey
Author of Lake Charles
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