Author Joseph Heller in his publisher's office in New York City on Oct. 9, 1974. Jerry Mosey/AP hide caption

J.K. Rowling isn't happy with her London lawyers. Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images hide caption

At her desk in the study of her Philadelphia townhouse in 1967, Pearl Buck looks at a bound volume of the magazine Asia from 1925 that contained her first published work. AP hide caption

The famous couch used by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was on display at his former home in London in 1986. Anne Purkiss/AP hide caption