COLUMBIA (AP).- Students more accustomed to computer screens than manual typewriters are getting a chance to sit at author Joseph Heller's stained wooden desk and type on the battered Smith-Corona he used to compose his acclaimed novel "Catch-22." A small exhibit at a University of South Carolina library displays the desk, typewriter and lamp used by Heller as he wrote many of his major works.
The university library has one of the largest
collections of his papers, manuscripts and other memorabilia available to
researchers, library officials said. "We acquired this with the
expectation that students would type on the typewriter and experience sitting
at his desk," said Elizabeth Suddeth, director of the Irvin Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections at the Ernest F. Hollings Library on the
Columbia campus, where the display is located. The display is available for ...
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