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List of former copywriters
Many creative people spend time early in their careers working as 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, publisher and editor (Cosmopolitan)
- Gary Comer , founder of Lands' End
- Don DeLillo, author
- Terry Gilliam, director and animator
- Alec Guinness, actor
- Dashiell Hammett, author
- Hugh Hefner, publisher (Playboy)
- Joseph Heller, author
- Russell Hoban, author
- Tim Kazurinsky, comedian
- Ogden Nash, poet
- Bob Newhart, comedian and actor
- Alan Parker, director
- Franc Roddam , director
- Salman Rushdie, author
- Dorothy L. Sayers, author
- Fay Weldon, author
Copywriters famous for their copywriting or advertising careers can be found at the list of copywriters.
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