Editing Typewriter (section)

== Writers with notable associations with typewriters ==
=== Early adopters ===
* [[Henry James]] dictated to a typist.<ref name=ja/>
* [[Mark Twain]] claimed in [[Mark Twain's Autobiography|his autobiography]] that he was the first important writer to present a publisher with a typewritten [[manuscript]], for ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'' (1876). Research showed that Twain's memory was incorrect and that the first book submitted in typed form was ''[[Life on the Mississippi]]'' (1883, also by Twain).<ref>{{Cite web |title=The First Typewriter |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201140007/http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/firsttw.html |archive-date=2009-02-01 |access-date=2009-02-16 |publisher=Rehr, Darryl}}</ref>
* The [[Horror fiction|horror fiction]] novelist [[R. L. Stine]] first started writing stories when he found a typewriter in his attic.  Stine wrote many of his early works with a typewriter.<ref name="typewriter">{{cite web|last= MacPherson|first= Karen|title= Venture into R.L. Stine's 'HorrorLand' – if you dare!|work= [[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|date= April 8, 2008|url= http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08099/871281-42.stm|access-date= May 24, 2025}}</ref>

=== Others ===
[[File:TheFaulknerPortable.jpg|thumb|[[William Faulkner]]'s [[Underwood Typewriter Company|Underwood]] Universal Portable in his office at [[Rowan Oak]], which is now maintained by the [[University of Mississippi]] in [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]] as a museum]]
* [[William S. Burroughs]] wrote in some of his novels—and possibly believed—that "a machine he called the 'Soft Typewriter' was writing our lives, and our books, into existence", according to a book review in ''The New Yorker''. In the [[Naked Lunch (film)|1991 film adaptation]] of his 1959 novel ''[[Naked Lunch]]'', his typewriter is a living, insect-like entity (voiced by North American actor [[Peter Boretski]]) and actually dictates the book to him.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wershler-Henry|first=Darren Sean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=38cd7wS1-RsC&q=burroughs|title=The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting|date=2007|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-4586-6|language=en}}</ref>
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] was accustomed to typing from awkward positions: "balancing his typewriter on his attic bed, because there was no room on his desk".<ref>Carpenter, Humphrey (1978). ''[[J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography]]'', Unwin Paperbacks p.207. {{ISBN|0 04 928039 2}}</ref> 
* [[Jack Kerouac]], a fast typist at 100 words per minute, typed his 1957 novel ''[[On the Road]]'' on a roll of paper so he would not be interrupted by having to change the paper. Within two weeks of starting to write ''On the Road'', Kerouac had one single-spaced paragraph, {{convert|120|ft}} long. Some scholars say the scroll was shelf paper; others contend it was a Thermal-fax roll; another theory is that the roll consisted of sheets of architect's paper taped together.<ref name=ja/> Kerouac himself stated that he used {{convert|100|ft|adj=on}} rolls of [[teletype]] paper.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LLpNKo09Xk|title = JACK KEROUAC on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW with Steve Allen 1959|website = YouTube| date=12 January 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Don Marquis]] purposely used the limitations of a typewriter (or more precisely, a particular typist) in his ''[[archy and mehitabel]]'' series of newspaper columns, which were later compiled into a series of books. According to his literary conceit, a [[cockroach]] named "Archy" was a [[Reincarnation|reincarnated]] [[free verse|free-verse]] poet, who would type articles overnight by jumping onto the keys of a manual typewriter. The writings were typed completely in lower case, because of the cockroach's inability to generate the heavy force needed to operate the shift key. The lone exception is the poem "CAPITALS AT LAST" from ''archys life of mehitabel'', written in 1933.

=== Late users ===
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* [[Richard Polt]], a philosophy professor at [[Xavier University]] in Cincinnati who collects typewriters, has edited ''ETCetera'', a quarterly magazine about historic writing machines, and is the author of the book ''The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist's Companion for the 21st Century''.<ref name="PoltBook">{{cite book |last1=Polt |first1=Richard |title=The typewriter revolution : a typist's companion for the 21st century |date=2015 |publisher=Countryman Press |location=Woodstock, VT |isbn=978-1581573114}}</ref><ref name="PoltWeb"/>
* [[William Gibson]] used a Hermes 2000 model manual typewriter to write his 1984 novel ''[[Neuromancer]]'' and half of ''[[Count Zero]]'' (1983) before a mechanical failure and lack of replacement parts forced him to upgrade to an [[Apple IIc]] computer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Blog archive |url=http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2006_10_01_archive.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021032407/http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2006_10_01_archive.asp |archive-date=2007-10-21 |access-date=2008-10-23}}</ref>
* [[Harlan Ellison]] used typewriters for his entire career, and when he was no longer able to have them repaired, learned to do it himself; he repeatedly stated his belief that computers are bad for writing, maintaining that "Art is not supposed to be easier!"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harlan Ellison Webderland: Interview |url=http://harlanellison.com/interview.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308110553/http://www.harlanellison.com/interview.htm |archive-date=2012-03-08 |access-date=2012-03-30 |publisher=Harlanellison.com}}</ref>
* [[Cormac McCarthy]] wrote his novels on an [[Olivetti Lettera 32]] typewriter until his death. In 2009, the Lettera he obtained from a pawn shop in 1963, on which nearly all his novels and screenplays were written, was auctioned for charity at [[Christie's]] for US$254,500;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |date=2009-12-04 |title=Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Brings $254,500 at Auction – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com |publisher=Artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/cormac-mccarthys-typewriter-brings-254500-at-auction/ |url-status=live |access-date=2010-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110528153549/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/cormac-mccarthys-typewriter-brings-254500-at-auction/ |archive-date=2011-05-28}}</ref> McCarthy obtained an identical replacement for $20 to continue writing on.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Patricia Cohen |date=November 30, 2009 |title=No Country for Old Typewriters: A Well-Used One Heads to Auction |work=[[New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/books/01typewriter.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140904124940/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/books/01typewriter.html |archive-date=September 4, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Joiner">{{cite web |last1=Joiner |first1=James |title=The Hidden World of the Typewriter |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/09/the-hidden-world-of-the-typewriter/279523/ |website=The Atlantic |access-date=2022-01-23 |language=en |date=11 September 2013}}</ref>
* [[Will Self]] explains why he uses a manual typewriter: "I think the computer user does their thinking on the screen, and the non-computer user is compelled, because he or she has to retype a whole text, to do a lot more thinking in the head."<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-05-30 |title=Why typewriters beat computers |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7427237.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804050059/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7427237.stm |archive-date=2017-08-04}}</ref>
* [[Ted Kaczynski]] (the "Unabomber") infamously used two old manual typewriters to write his polemic essays and messages.<ref name="Joiner"/>
* Actor [[Tom Hanks]] uses and collects manual typewriters.<ref name="NY Times typewriter">{{Cite news |last=Hanks |first=Tom |title=I Am TOM. I Like to TYPE. Hear That? |work=The New York Times |date=3 August 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/opinion/sunday/i-am-tom-i-like-to-type-hear-that.html |access-date=March 9, 2020}}</ref><ref name="Joiner"/> To control the size of his collection, he gifts autographed machines to appreciative fans and repair shops around the world.<ref name="Patkin">{{cite web |last1=Patkin |first1=Abby |title=Tom Hanks just sent a typewriter to an Arlington shop. Here's why. |url=https://www.boston.com/news/off-beat/2023/04/05/tom-hanks-sent-typewriter-arlington-shop/ |website=www.boston.com |publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners LLC |access-date=2023-04-05 |date=April 5, 2023}}</ref>
* Historian [[David McCullough]] used a Royal typewriter to compose his books.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1999 |title=The Art of Biography No. 2 |language=en |volume=Fall 1999 |issue=152 |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/894/the-art-of-biography-no-2-david-mccullough |access-date=2023-12-14 |issn=0031-2037}}</ref>
* Biographer [[Robert Caro]] has used various models of the Smith Corona Electra 210 to write his biographies of [[Robert Moses]] and [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Helfand |first=Zach |date=2021-10-22 |title=Why Robert Caro Now Has Only Ten Typewriters |language=en-US |magazine=The New Yorker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/why-robert-caro-now-has-only-ten-typewriters |access-date=2023-12-14 |issn=0028-792X}}</ref>
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