Typewriter of the moment: Birthday boy William Faulkner
William Faulkner at his typewriter, August 12, 1954, at his home in Oxford, Mississippi. Associated Press photo. The photo was probably posed; the two books to the left of the typewriter are Faulkner books. Faulkner may have written in a pressed shirt and tie, but I doubt it. Faulkner won the Nobel Prize for Literature…