Tom Hanks to Pen Debut Book

He’s one of the most successful actors in the history of Hollywood, not to mention the only man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor in two consecutive years, but all-American hero Tom Hanks is now turning his talented hand to the world of publishing.

The 60-year-old silver screen legend will release his debut written effort Uncommon Type: Some Stories in October. The book will be a collection of 17 tales – each put together on a different typewriter from Hanks’ 100-strong personal collection – and is inspired by the actor’s many travels around the world.



“In the two years of working on the stories, I made movies in New York, Berlin, Budapest, and Atlanta, and wrote in all of them,” Hanks wrote in a statement. “I wrote in hotels during press tours. I wrote on vacation. I wrote on planes, at home, and in the office. When I could actually make a schedule, and keep to it, I wrote in the mornings from 9 to 1.”

According to the publisher Knopf, Hanks’ stories will focus on subjects such as “an immigrant arriving in New York City after his family and life have been torn apart by his country’s civil war; a man who bowls a perfect game (and then another, and another), becoming ESPN’s newest celebrity; an eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant on the hunt for something larger in America; and the junket life of an actor.”

Is there anything that man can't do?

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