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lounged on it while recuperating from a serious bout of malaria contracted on a difficult journey through upper Burma, working on a fairy tale about Siam that appears in his travel book The Gentleman in the Parlour. Among the many other writers who have found a home away from home at The Oriental on their travels have been such eminent figures as John Le Carr��, Graham Greene, Alex Waugh, Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, William Golding, John Steinbeck, Barbara Cartland, Ian Fleming, Iris Murdoch, and V.S. Naipaul. Off the Author���s Lounge are the Trophy Room, displaying the countless plaques, cups, certificates, statuettes, and other awards The Oriental has received over the years attesting to its status as one of the best hotels in the world, and the Reading Room, a cozy, wood-paneled retreat for book-lovers with a large selection of works by former guests and photographs of famous writers. The adjoining Garden Wing was built in 1958, the first major addition made to the original structure (and the last until the River Wing opened in 1976). At ten storeys HYLAND