10.Resident for many years Arthur C. ClarkeSubmitted 2001: A Space Odyssey The Chelsea hosts collaborative meetings Stanley Kubrick in his suite while the director was making his classic film of the same name, the works developing simultaneously. They were both released in 1968.
11. Thomas Wolfe was 6-foot-7 and did a lot of work leaning rather than sitting while toiling away on various works at the Chelsea, including his posthumously released novel You Can’t Go Home Yet again. His assistant arrived each morning and typed up what he had written the day before. He worked in shifts from midnight to four a.m. After accepting an invitation to speak at Purdue, Indiana, the North Carolina native decided that he would spend the summer 1938 in the West Coast. He fell ill with a brain abscess in Seattle and died after being transported Back All across America to Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore. He was 37.
12.Before Take the road Published Jack Kerouac and fellow writer Gore Vidal In 1953, they had one-night stands at Chelsea. They registered under their real names and, according to Tippins, assured the desk clerk the ledger they signed would be worth money one day.
13. Bob Dylan is said to have written “Visions of Johanna,” which ended up on his 1966 double album Blonde on BlondeWhen he lived at Chelsea with his wife Sara Lownds. And in his 1975 song “Sara,” written when their marriage was foundering, he remembered: “Stayin’ up for days in the Chelsea Hotel / Writin’ ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands’ for you.”