Here’s what contemporary author Neil Gaiman said about his enviable, Mark Twain style writing gazebo in the book Shedworking: “I had the gazebo built about 15 years ago, and go through phases of using it, and then I’ll abandon it for 5 years, then rediscover it with delight. I love walking to the bottom of [...]
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So this week’s home library is a corker! Meet Norman Mailer’s whole house! Photo Source Norman Mailer’s apartment did not have a dedicated library; rather, the whole apartment was a library, with bookshelves sitting against many of the walls and volumes stacked hither and thither. Seen here as it looked a few years after his [...]
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Ernest Hemingway lived in this house in Key West, Florida for more than 10 years. This is where he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and Death in the Afternoon. Needing a place where he could drink a glass of scotch, smoke a cigar, and write, Hemingway turned the old carriage house on the property [...]
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If William Randolph Hearst had lived in the 21rst century and been a lot geekier, this is what his library might have looked like. Created by the founder of Priceline.com, Jay Walker, to be a tribute to the human imagination, the 3,600 square foot library consists of three eye-popping levels, which were inspired by [...]
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When the stone mansion (“Wolf House”) Jack London was building on his Sonoma Valley ranch burned down in 1913, he built a tranquil, windowed annex onto the large “cottage” he and his wife Charmian had been living in for years. The study–in which he penned his final stories and novels–was adjacent to his “sleeping porch.” [...]
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So last week, I shared the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and this week it is the turn of onr of his creations, and someone with a fabulous home library! Though, Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character, his study has been lovingly recreated from the descriptions given by his creator, Doyle. There is one [...]
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Today I’m excited to be able to share images of Arthur Conan Doyle’s study! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle lived in his Windlesham home on the outskirts of Crowborough in East Sussex for 23 years. When he died there in 1930, his request was to be buried in a garden next to a writing hut he had built on the [...]
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When Roald Dahl moved to Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire in 1965, he built a small writing hut (you can take a 3-D tour here) for himself. Dahl’s family has kept the hut much like it was when the author died, but even during his life it was a pretty dark, bare bones, ramshackle sort of [...]
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