--- description: Oscar-winning actor was inspired by his typewriter collection title: Tom Hanks Will Write Short Story Collection for Knopf-Doubleday image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71c1c7325e98a365/698763ec0b72e361d06db592/456568946.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Tom Hanks Will Publish Short Story Collection  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Nov 3, 2014 7:30 PM CUT  Actor Tom Hanks on location for "St. James Place" on October 2, 2014 in New York City. (Bobby Bank--GC Images) Actor Tom Hanks on location for "St. James Place" on October 2, 2014 in New York City. (Bobby Bank--GC Images)Bobby Bank—GC Images  by [Charlotte Alter](/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Nov 3, 2014 7:30 PM CUT Tom Hanks will soon be able to add “author” to his resumé, having secured a publisher for a collection of short stories inspired by his beloved typewriter collection. Hanks, who recently published a story in the [_New Yorker_](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/alan-bean-plus-four "undefined")_,_ said his hobby of collecting antique writing machines had motivated him to take to the typewriter keys himself. “I’ve been collecting typewriters for no particular reason since 1978 – both manual and portable machines dating from the thirties to the nineties,” the Oscar-winning actor said in a statement. “The stories are not about the typewriters themselves, but rather, the stories are something that might have been written on one of them.” The collection, to be published by Knopf-Doubleday, doesn’t yet have a release date or a title. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3555006/tom-hanks-short-story-collection/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3555006/tom-hanks-short-story-collection/"},"headline":"Tom Hanks Will Publish Short Story Collection","datePublished":"2014-11-03T19:30:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:11:26.473Z","description":"Oscar-winning actor was inspired by his typewriter collection","url":"https://time.com/3555006/tom-hanks-short-story-collection/","keywords":["Books","penguin","Oscars","Tom Hanks"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71c1c7325e98a365/698763ec0b72e361d06db592/456568946.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt71c1c7325e98a365/698763ec0b72e361d06db592/456568946.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - October 02, 2014","caption":"Celebrity Sightings In New York City - October 02, 2014","creditText":"Bobby Bank—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3555006/tom-hanks-short-story-collection/","name":"Tom Hanks Will Publish Short Story Collection"}}]}] ```