List of former copywriters
- List of former copywriters
Many creative people spend time early in their careers working as advertising copywriters. This is a list of such people – specifically, people who worked as copywriters before achieving fame in a non-advertising career.
Names are followed by the careers in which they're famous.
* Sherwood Anderson, author
* Augusten Burroughs, author
* Helen Gurley Brown, former publisher and editor ("Cosmopolitan")
* Peter Carey, author
* Bryce Courtenay, Australian Author
* Don DeLillo, author
* F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
* Terry Gilliam, director and animator
* Alec Guinness, actor
* Dashiell Hammett, author
* Hugh Hefner, publisher ("Playboy")
* Joseph Heller, author
* Russell Hoban, author
* John Hughes, director, writer
* Tim Kazurinsky, comedian
* Elmore Leonard, author
* Rick Moranis, actor
* Ogden Nash, poet
* Bob Newhart, comedian and actor
* Alan Parker, director
* Steven Pressfield, author
* Franc Roddam, director
* Indra Sinha, novelist
* Salman Rushdie, author
* Dorothy L. Sayers, author
* Fay Weldon, author
* Thom Jones, author
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