Writer Facts

A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.

John Swartzwelder, a writer for The Simpsons, used to write episodes while sitting in a booth at a coffee shop, drinking copious amounts of coffee and smoking endless cigarettes. When California passed an anti-smoking law in 1998, he bought the booth and installed it in his house so he could keep writing the same way.