Tom Hanks the author: Oscar winning actor to publish short stories collection

Tom Hanks sealed a deal with Alfred A. Knopf to publish a collection of stories inspired in part by his personal collection of typewriters.

16:25 04 November 2014

Catch Me If You Can star Tom Hanks has landed a book deal with publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Under the agreement, the Oscar-winning actor will write and publish a collection of stories inspired in part by his personal collection of typewriters.

No title has been chosen yet for the book and no publication date has been set. Financial terms were not disclosed.

In a statement released by Knopf, the 58-year-old Hanks said, ‘I've been collecting typewriters for no particular reason since 1978 — both manual and portable machines dating from the '30s to '90s.

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‘The stories are not about the typewriters themselves, but rather, the stories are something that might have been written on one of them.’

Tom Hanks has always been fascinated with typewriters. In an article for The New York Times in August 2013, he said: 'The tactile pleasure of typing old school is incomparable to what you get from a de rigueur laptop.”

‘Computer keyboards make a mousy tappy tap tappy tap like ones you hear in a Starbucks — work may be getting done but it sounds cozy and small, like knitting needles creating a pair of socks.

‘Everything you type on a typewriter sounds grand, the words forming in mini-explosions of SHOOK SHOOK SHOOK. A thank-you note resonates with the same heft as a literary masterpiece.’