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Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter

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 [...]