Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter
Posted on | January 6, 2010 | No Comments
by Cat Johnson
In 1958 Cormac McCarthy paid fifty dollars for a typewriter in a Knoxville, Tennessee pawnshop. Over fifty years and five million words later it sold for $254,500 in a benefit auction for The Santa Fe Institute.
“I have typed on this typewriter every book I have written including three not yet published” McCarthy wrote in his authentication letter. “It has never been serviced or cleaned other than blowing out the dust with a service station airhose.”
Apparently McCarthy is sticking with what works. A friend recently replaced the old typewriter, buying the same model for less than twenty dollars.
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