J.K. Rowling depicted with Fountain Pen

[kissing]

I was flicking through Time magazine from a few weeks ago (March 19) and found this picture of J.K. Rowling holding a fountain pen

 

(image from Time website)

 

http://img.timeinc.net/time/2007/whats_next/images/books.jpg

 

Close up the nib design is similar to that of a Mont Blanc Generation. Is the pen identifiable ?

 

 

edited to add: this article

Edited April 9, 2007 by kissing

[Samovar]

Cool!

Looks like the Noblesse! I guess she can afford any pen she might fancy.

 

I'm not a Rowling specialist, but I remember reading that she wrote her first book with a pen, which pen, I don't know...

 

Samovar

[Col]

Where's her auto-quill, then?

[born t]

Being a commission artist myself, I say don't take paintings seriously.

Artists often apply their artistic license to paint whatever they like. As long as it does not affect the main subject, it's generally acceptable.

 

 

Edited April 9, 2007 by born t

[Friend of Pens]

From what I've read, she does in fact do all of her manuscripts longhand. I remember a recent story about airport security almost not letting her take the most recent one on a plane. Considering that the books tend to run in the high hundreds of pages, this must have been quite a scene. "I'm famous! I'm J.K. Rowling, dammit!" (clutching thousands of sheets of paper...)

 

I can't imagine doing that much writing with anything other than a fine instrument, honestly.

[RLTodd]

AIR, the photographs that I saw of Rowling had a single use roller ball, or maybe a felt tip, in her hand. Unless she had some specific reasons not to, I would guess her publisher would have guided her into a pc by now.

 

 

[Roz]

Aha Brilliant If I ever meet her I'll ask for a spell checking quill / fountain pen

[ViolinWriter]

I've read an unauthorized biography of JK Rowling. In it, she was described as always writing longhand, usually in cafes and such after she moved back to the UK. Later, after Harry caught on and she became an Edinburgh celebrity, she'd still write in cafes, but found it more difficult as the crowds were more than a bit of a distraction.

 

Apparently she writes the books longhand, then enters the manuscript onto computer disk when she is happy with her writing.

 

And yes, she does use fountain pens. Of course the author of the bio I read never thought it important to list the make, model, age, finish, pen material, nib composition, prior ownership, state of nib smoothness, nib size, ink and preferred paper when describing her writing tools.

 

He just stated she wrote with pens. A couple of times he really went out on a limb and said "fountain pens".

 

But what do unauthorized biographers know, eh?

 

(edited for missing hand/eye coordination when keying stuff in)

Edited April 10, 2007 by ViolinWriter

[ericthered2004]

I'm not entirely surprised to hear she writes longhand and with a FP. It's how those of her generation learned to write. I'm actually more surprised at how few people here in the US use fountain pens, or even pens at all, if they have a lot of writing to do.

 

Regards,

Eric

[Johnny Appleseed]

I always heard that she used a roller-ball or gel-roller for the manuscripts, but that source was some posts here in the past.

 

John

[RLTodd]

QUOTE (ericthered2004 @ Apr 9 2007, 07:52 PM)

I'm not entirely surprised to hear she writes longhand and with a FP. It's how those of her generation learned to write. I'm actually more surprised at how few people here in the US use fountain pens, or even pens at all, if they have a lot of writing to do. Regards, Eric

AIR, wood cased lead pencils were always the big thing in writing instruments.

[Sciopod]

From the look of this picture, her fountain pen is in serious need of some repair work.

[jd50ae]

Both tines appear to be in good shape.

[Friend of Pens]

Is that an extra-extra-extra-broad nib? I bet Richard could grind that down to something more usable.

[Sciopod]

QUOTE (jd50ae @ Apr 11 2007, 07:04 PM)

Both tines appear to be in good shape.

[Johnny Appleseed]

I think David I has the complete pen.