A BUSY NOVELIST
HIS 40-YEAR TYPEWRITER. At 80 years of age, veteran novelist G. B. Burgin has 114 novels to his credit. Yet after pounding out millions of words on his 40-year-old typewriter, he is still writing. His latest book, “The Golden Penny,” was published last April, and he has six other books ready for the printing press. “Writing is in my blood,” Mr. Burgin said to a “Sunday Chronicle” reporter. “I can’t help it. Whenever I get an idea I just sit down at the old typewriter and whack it out.” The “whacking out” has been done on a typewriter that must surely be the busiest antique model in Britain. It has rows and rows of keys, some for small letters—like this—and the other set for capital letters —LIKE THIS. There is no ribbon on this venerable machine, but a central pad which is soaked in ink once a year. Every novel he writ-s three times. The third version is sent away, so that a perfectly typed copy may be made.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3927, 16 July 1937, Page 2
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