Desperately trying to find out what model portable typewriter Ken Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on (he later used an IBM Selectric). In the meantime, here are some other writers and their typewriters (for good measure, there are a couple of philosophers in here, too). Some of the models are fairly obvious, others not so much.
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()
Alberto Bevilacqua 1972, Olivetti Studio 44
Alberto Moravia 1950, Remington
Alberto Savinio 1940, Remington 1
Aldous Huxley 1946, Royal?
Alistair MacLean 1960, Remington
Antonio Amurri 1975. Olympia SF
Arthur Miller 1955, Royal
Arthur Schlesinger Jr 1950, Remington?
Beryl Cooke 1956, Oliver?
Betsy Beaton 1948
Betty Smith 1944, Royal
Blaise Cendrars 1948, Remington 2![]()
Brendan Gill 1970, Olivetti
Brooks Atkinson 1947 Moscow, Royal
Damon Runyon 1944, Royal
Donald Barthelme 1964
Drew Pearson 1949, Corona 3?
E. B. White 1953
Elio Vittorini 1955, Olivetti (Studio 42?)
Elliot Paul 1944, Remington 2
Emlyn Williams 1966, Corfu, Olivetti Lettera 22
Eric Hobsbawm 1976, Olivetti Studio 45
Frederick Manfred 1947
Françoise Sagan 1957, Hermes Baby
Freya Stark 1957
Friederike Mayröcker 1969, Hermes Baby?
Gay Talese 1989
Georges Simenon 1945, Royal
Gordon Honeycombe 1972
Harry Hopkins 1955. What is that machine?
John Robb 1955
Leon Trotsky 1938
Lowell Sherman 1935
Marguerite Duras 1955, Olivetti ICO MP1
Marie Winstedt1974, Smith-Corona?
Mary Astor 1960
Merton Hodge 1934, Underwood Noiseless?
Otto Strasser 1939
Paul Brodeur 1989, Olympia SM9
Paul Krassner 1968, IBM?
Paolo Limiti 1968, Remington Monarch?
Paolo Limiti, Olivetti
Peter Tinniswood 1986
Pierre Schoendoerffer 1965, Olivetti
René Girard 1979, Olivetti DL
Robert Kee 1951, Remington 2
Robert Sabatier 1987, Hermes 3000
Roland Pertwee 1933
Salman Rushdie 1981, Corona electric?
Susan Comegys 1955
Susan Sontag 1972
Taylor Caldwell 1948, Royal
Tennessee Williams 1955, Olivetti Studio 44
Togo 1937
Jean Bruller 1972, Olympia SM9
