by Maxine Carter-Lome, publisher   It is said that Kurt Vonnegut used his hardwood floor as his desk. He worked from his lap with everything—papers, notes, drafts—spread out around him. Virginia Woolf often wrote in a low armchair with a plywood board across her knee. Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden on a simple Hepplewhite-style desk […]

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