From Henry James to Jack Kerouac, the familiar clickity clack of the typewriter was like a love song that accompanied many writers' works. In fact, James became so used to dictating his novels to a ...

You've never really typed unless you've done it on a typewriter. Manual, preferably, so you feel the strength in your fingertips as you pound the keys and then slide the shiny chrome carriage return ...

Tom Hanks' love affair with typewriters began in the 1970s, with his first proper typewriter — a Hermes 2000. Typewriters are "beautiful works of art," he tells NPR's Audie Cornish. "And I've ended up ...