Many significant literary works have been produced from within prisons.

Lets look at some of them.

Inside the little hut, Dahl surrounded himself with pictures, inspirational quotes and photos of family and friends.

Roald Dahl’s hut

When it got cold, he covered his legs with a sleeping bag.

The only light in the hut came from an angle poise lamp.

The room itself is of no consequence.

Roald Dahl’s hut

The wooden study was about 12 feet across and designed to resemble a Mississippi steamboat pilot house.

Twain called it the loveliest study you ever saw.

After Mark Twains death, the tiny cabin wasrelocated to Elmira Collegewhere it currently stands.

Roald Dahl’s hut

He has constructed a small hut on his grounds that is built on a turntable.

It remains intact exactly as the great writer left it when he died in 1950.

Thoreau used this time to write his first book,A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

Dylan Thomas’s hut

It was not the most comfortable of cabins.

Williamson wrote many of his later books there, sitting alone in the hut for 15 hours a day.

Dylan Thomas’s hut

Mark Twain’s study

Mark Twain’s study

George Bernard Shaw’s hut

Henry David Thoreau’s hut

Henry David Thoreau’s hut

Virginia Woolf’s hut

Henry Williamson’s hut