Editing Typewriter (section)

=== 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>