Virginia Woolf famously wrote in “A Room of One’s Own” that “it is necessary to have 500 a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.”
Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move. What is it that fascinates us about the writer’s room?
This book takes readers inside literature’s creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question.
Beginning with her own secondhand writing desk, Katie da Cunha Lewin invites us to consider how these environments embody the craft of writing and shape the literary works we love.
