Rooms of Their Own - Where Great Writers Write

Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work. 

List of contents

Introduction                                                                           
Isabel Allende
Maya Angelou
Margaret Atwood
W.H. Auden
Jane Austen
James Baldwin
Honoré de Balzac
Ray Bradbury
The Brontës
Anton Chekhov
Agatha Christie
Colette
Roald Dahl
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Arthur Conan Doyle
Ian Fleming
Thomas Hardy
Ernest Hemingway
Victor Hugo
Samuel Johnson
Judith Kerr
Stephen King
Rudyard Kipling
D.H. Lawrence
Astrid Lindgren
Jack London
Hilary Mantel
Margaret Mitchell
Michel de Montaigne
Haruki Murakami
George Orwell
Sylvia Plath
Beatrix Potter
Marcel Proust
J.K. Rowling
Vita Sackville-West
George Bernard Shaw
Zadie Smith
Danielle Steel
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
Dylan Thomas
Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut
Edith Wharton
E.B. White
P.G. Wodehouse
Virginia Woolf
William Wordsworth
Visitor Information
Index                                                                                      
Picture credits
 

About the author

Alex Johnson is a journalist, blogger and author of Rooms of Their Own: Where Great Writers Write, Improbable Libraries and Bookshelf. He lives in St Albans, London with his wife, three children, and plenty of books from all over the world.James Oses is an artist and illustrator from south London. He specialises in painting interesting places, often working in ink and watercolours. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The Guardian and Radio Times. Other clients include Borough Market, Marks & Spencer and the Poetry Society. He also teaches at Middlesex University.

Summary

Rooms of Their Own travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous writers created their most notable work.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Johnson, Johnson Alex
• Assisted by: James Oses (Illustration)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2022
• EAN: 9780711258013
• ISBN: 978-0-7112-5801-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 225 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 650 g
• Illustrations: 175 colour illustrations
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, Collected biographies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Classic Travel Writing