Expensive Typewriter

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy isn’t a Mac or a PC. For nearly 50 years, he’s been typing his novels, short stories, correspondence and more on the same manual typewriter.

The author is known by both book lovers and movie lovers. His "No Country for Old Men" was adapted for the big screen and won 4 Oscars including Best Picture at last year's Academy Awards. The film version of "The Road" is in theaters now, two years after McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize for the book.

Today, Christie’s auction house will auction off his beloved typewriter. McCarthy is donating the proceeds to the Santa Fe Institute, an interdisciplinary research center of which he is a member.

Christie's predicts at least a $15,000 and $20,000 selling price. Thomas Lecky, head of the books and manuscript division for the auction house, tells FOX there’s been a tremendous amount of interest in the typewriter.

“You're connected to that author,” says Lecky. “It’s the same reason people collect original manuscripts, because the author handled it. They wrote it, they worked on it and it's really something tactile that existed with a literary figure."

The top bidder will walk away with the typewriter and the chance to meet the author. McCarthy plans to invite the auction winner to join him for lunch at the Santa Fe Institute.