The French Polynesian island of Tetiaroa, where former US president Barack Obama plans to write his memoir.
The retreats where famous authors found inspiration – in pictures
Former president Barack Obama is to journey to the South Pacific island of Tetiaroa, once owned by Marlon Brando, to write his memoir. Here’s a look at where other famous authors found the inspiration to write
| The small hut where Mark Twain brought Huckleberry Finn to life on a farm in Elmira, New York, now housed on a college campus |
| The Elephant House cafe in Edinburgh, Scotland, one of the cafes in which JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel |
| The wooden shed at the Boat House in Laugharne, Wales, where Dylan Thomas worked |
| The Writing Lodge in the garden at Monk’s House in England, was the writer Virginia Woolf’s country home and retreat |
| The Goldeneye estate in Jamaica where Ian Fleming wrote the bulk of his James Bond novels |
| A replica of the hut that Henry David Thoreau built himself to write in near Walden pond In Concord, Massachusetts |
| The house in Key West, Florida, where Ernest Hemingway did some of his best work, including To Have And Have Not |
| The sitting room at South Cottage at Sissinghurst Castle, the retreat of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West |
| Isolated Barnhill House on the Scottish island of Jura where George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| George Bernard Shaw’s rotating shed in St Alban’s, England, which he built so he could always face the sun while writing his plays |