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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 HammettSamuel Dashiell Hammett ( May 27, 1894 January 10, 1961) was an American author of " hard-boiled" detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created are Sam Spade The Maltese Falcon , Nick and Nora Charles The Thin Man , and the, author
- Hugh HefnerHugh Marston Hefner (born April 9th, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is the founder and editor of Playboy magazine. He has since become an icon for the hedonistic ideals associated with the periodical. He reportedly has an IQ of 150, and he has certainly, publisher ( PlayboyPlayboy is an adult entertainment magazine founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. NYSE: PLA, PLA. A , reaching into every form of media. Playboy is one of the world's best known brands. The magazine has a carefully)
- Joseph HellerJoseph Heller ( May 1, 1923 December 12, 1999) was an American novelist best remembered for writing the satiric World War II classic Catch-22''. Joseph Heller was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up on Coney Island to Russian Jewish immigrant parents., author
- Russell HobanRussell Conwell Hoban (born February 4th, 1925) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, poetry, children's books, and unclassifiable works which contain fantasy elements within a modern urban setting. Born in Philadelphia, P, author
- Tim KazurinskyTim Kazurinsky (born March 3, 1950 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania) is a comedian best known for performances on the NBC show " Saturday Night Live". Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types. Kazurinsky was a veteran of Chicago's The Second City co, comedianA comedian (also comedienne female) is a person who attempts to make people laugh through a variety of methods, normally through joke telling. However, other comedians rely on methods such as slapstick (for example, Laurel and Hardy), or prop comedy to ge
- Ogden NashFrederic Ogden Nash ( August 19, 1902 May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy, funny, light verse. Nash was born in Rye, New York. His father owned and operated an import-export company, and because of business obligations Nash's f, poet
- Bob Newhart, comedian and actor
- Alan Parker, director
- Franc Roddam , director
- Salman Rushdie, author
- Dorothy L. Sayers, author
- Fay Weldon, author
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