 My name is Naomi Wood, I am the author of Mrs Hemingway. It's a story about Hemingway and his relationship with his four wives. The only publishing success he had was The Old Man in the Sea. As soon as I read that I wanted to find out so much more about him biographically and thought exploring the lives of his wives was a great way into looking at the man himself. I always used the British Library for writing and for researching. One of the amazing collections I found was a travel guide for Key West. It had everything I needed. It was one of those finds where you think, yes, I've found this and it's going to furnish all the details. As well as all of the books that I used, I used the moving images and sound archives as a novelist to see someone and to be able to get such a clear image. It was amazing. The Eccles Centre at the British Library set up their Writer-in-Residence Prize to sponsor writers who need extensive use of the American collections. I used the British Library collections for a long time and I think because I was so familiar with the British Library collections that's the reason I won the award in a way because I knew intimately what I needed. I can't imagine writing another book without the British Library collections. There is no better place to go to have all of the books, newspapers and magazines all in one place. I think they're an essential and central part of the creative process.