The New York Times reports today that Cormac McCarthy has decided to auction off his Olivetti Lettera 32 and donate the proceeds to the Santa Fe Institute, having written novels, plays, letters and screenplays on it since buying it from a pawnshop in a Knoxville, Tennessee for $50 in 1963.
McCarthy is not the only well-known writer with a fondness for the Olivetti. Gunter Grass talks of his deep attachment to the classic typewriter in his controversial memoir Peeling the Onion.
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