He's an author too! Tom Hanks has secured a deal with Knopf to publish his collection of short stories
Tom Hanks has landed a book deal for a collection of stories inspired in part by his personal collection of typewriters.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced Monday that it has an agreement with the Oscar-winning actor.
The book is currently untitled and no publication date has been set. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Multitalented: Tom Hanks, pictured in London in early October, has a book deal with publisher Alfred A. Knopf for a collection of stories inspired in part by his personal collection of typewriters
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.
‘The stories are not about the typewriters themselves, but rather, the stories are something that might have been written on one of them.’
The Castaway star has had a longtime fascination with the vintage apparatus, which he detailed in an article for The New York Times in August 2013.
He's known for being a good guy: Hanks with a cab driver (left) he invited to his NYC play in 2013
'The tactile pleasure of typing old school is incomparable to what you get from a de rigueur laptop,’ he wrote.
‘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.’
The news of Hanks’ book deal comes on the heels of his recent fiction work published in The New Yorker on October 27.
Alan Bean Plus Four tells the story of four friends who travel to the moon in their homemade spacecraft.
When asked why he is writing fiction after a successful Hollywood career, Hanks told The New York Times: ‘I’ve been around great storytellers all my life and, like an enthusiastic student, I want to tell some of my own.’
Tom was in the news last week for being the center of a story told by a New York taxi cab driver.
The cabbie said Hanks was kind to him by inviting him to his play the Lucky Guy after they started a friendship.
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