Authors and their pens

[Roe D Hym]

Did an internal search and did not find this article so I am leaving the link for you'all.

https://luxipens.com/18-famous-authors-and-their-fountain-pens/

[penwash]

Interesting topic and article. I searched a bit and found this one:

http://mossdreams.blogspot.com/2014/10/colette-writer-and-fountain-pen.html

Credit belongs to the blog writer of course.

[Ole Juul]

What you write with influences the mood and thinking. William Gibson used to write on a manual portable typewriter, old reporter style, and then later transcribe to his computer for more serious editing.

[An old bloke]

I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.

[Kaputnik]

Interesting article, thank you for the link.

I have some factual doubts and quibbles, but quibbling is part of the fun with these articles. I'll just mention that the picture of an Esterbrook "J" associated with Simone de Beauvoir is actually an Esterbrook M2. She may have used a J, for all I know, but if so, that's not it.

[penwash]

I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.

GK Chesterton at least knew a thing or two about fountain pens:

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/chesterton-innocence-of-father-brown-190.html

[wingwiper]

Did an internal search and did not find this article so I am leaving the link for you'all.

https://luxipens.com/18-famous-authors-and-their-fountain-pens/

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[guyy]

In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway reminisces about writing the early short stories with pencils.

[FredRydr]

In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway reminisces about writing the early short stories with pencils.
He likely wrote that on his manual typewriter.

[AzJon]

I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.

IIRC, Tolkien wasn't a fountain pen user and preferred a dip pen.

[Sailor Kenshin]

I THOUGHT I saw Tolkien writing Elvish with an Osmiroid. But I was probably hallucinating.

[Kaputnik]

I THOUGHT I saw Tolkien writing Elvish with an Osmiroid. But I was probably hallucinating.

We may have had similar hallucinations, although I wouldn't know an Osmiroid if I saw one. I think I remember a better picture than this, but this is what some rapid Googling comes up with. Exactly what the pen is isn't clear from this picture, and I couldn't prove that that's Tolkien's hand holding it, but for what it's worth.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/j-r-r-tolkien-on-building-languages-elvish-is-too-com-1824211114

[Sailor Kenshin]

I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.

GK Chesterton at least knew a thing or two about fountain pens:

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/chesterton-innocence-of-father-brown-190.html

One of Agatha Christie's stories revolved around a fountain pen filled with green ink.

[Empty_of_Clouds]

I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.

GK Chesterton at least knew a thing or two about fountain pens:

http://www.literaturepage.com/read/chesterton-innocence-of-father-brown-190.html

One of Agatha Christie's stories revolved around a fountain pen filled with green ink.

THe Mysterious Death of the Man Who Complained?

[AzJon]

I THOUGHT I saw Tolkien writing Elvish with an Osmiroid. But I was probably hallucinating.

Entirely possible, but it would have been much later in his life, after the books gained notoriety.

Probably was an Osmiroid, though, if anything, because of their wide range or script nibs available.

Edit: Found the video clip, but its grainy. Good luck: https://youtu.be/Ca5TUYB1nlw?t=252

Edit 2: slightly better video quality on Facebook. Still hard to tell what kind of pen it is, though. https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/253444925702567

[Sailor Kenshin]

I THOUGHT I saw Tolkien writing Elvish with an Osmiroid. But I was probably hallucinating.

Entirely possible, but it would have been much later in his life, after the books gained notoriety.

Probably was an Osmiroid, though, if anything, because of their wide range or script nibs available.

Edit: Found the video clip, but its grainy. Good luck: https://youtu.be/Ca5TUYB1nlw?t=252

Edit 2: slightly better video quality on Facebook. Still hard to tell what kind of pen it is, though. https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/253444925702567

I can't tell either, but he has a nice light touch.

[ChrisJ]

I was about to comment that I didn't know Hemingway was left handed until I noticed the picture is reversed (as evidenced by the buttons on his shirt). None the less, It is a great article and an interesting topic. Now curiosity compels -- we, or more correctly I, need to find out what Siegfried Sassoon, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and GK Chesterton used.

Sassoon's wartime journals and diaries have now been digitised by Cambridge University Library , you can find them here https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1 . From the look of the journals it seems he used pencil but mainly what looks like ink from a dip pen - there are distinct signs in many cases of recharging the ink. What he used after the war and for the rest of his like i'm unsure .

[An old bloke]

Thanks for the link Chris.

It isn't surprising that much of Sassoon's journals were written in pencil. I've seen other WWI soldier's journals written in pencil. Officers and NCOs in WWI were instructed to use pencil to write despatches when in the field. Pencils are reliable and easily sharpened, and as such were the choice in the trenches.

[emmausa]

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[Chrissy]

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[Doggy Daddy]

Shelby Foote, the author and US Civil War historian wrote with a dip pen. He talks about his favorite Esterbrook #313 Probate in this 1999 interview in The Paris Review.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/17/tools-of-the-trade/

[R.A. Stewart]

I'm coming into this thread late, but this is fascinating. I'm a poet and do most of my early drafts with a Parker 51, so I'm particularly gratified to see it was Dylan Thomas's preferred instrument as well. (And I'm going to check out Jonathan Carroll's work.)

[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

Posted on writer Marc Cameron's Twitter feed ....

https://x.com/MarcCameron1/status/1689809833460195328?s=20

(https://x.com/MarcCameron1/status/1689809833460195328?s=20)