Pinter wrote The Room over two or four days in 1957, depending on the account, at the suggestion of his friend Henry Woolf for his production as part of a postgraduate program in directing at the University of Bristol, Bristol, England. In their published interviews, Pinter and Woolf vary in describing how many days **Pinter** took to write The Room. According to Billington, in _ official biography Harold Pinter, Woolf asked Pinter to write the play in a letter that Pinter received in the autumn of 1956, when he ``was newly married'' to actress Vivien Merchant ``and in the middle of a season at Torquay''; ``(Pinter) replied that he couldn't possibly deliver anything in under six months.