which writer's preferred which typewriters...

• Edward Abbey: Royal KMG 
• Douglas Adams: Hermes 8 (photo 1, photo 2)
  
• Ryan Adams (musician): Olympia SM3 (photo 1, photo 2)
• Joy Adamson: Remington portable no. 1
• Edward Albee: Remington 16 or KMC
• Nelson Algren: Underwood, Remington 17 or KMC (photo 1, photo 2)
• Woody Allen: Olympia SM3 (story)
• Joseph Alsop (columnist): Royal 10 (1939 photo); Underwood Standard SX-100, ca. 1950-52 (Jan. 1968 photo)
• Jorge Amado: Royal portable
• Kingsley Amis: Adler standard, photo 1, photo 2 (typewriter mentioned in Paris Review, Art of Fiction No. 59 and Amis' The King's English) 
• Martin Amis: Olivetti Lettera 32 (1981 photo), Triumph/Adler electronic (possibly SE 1010/1030)
• Roald Amundsen: folding Erika (in Polar Museum, Tromsø, Norway)
• Julie Andrews: IBM Selectric I #4085682 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Maya Angelou: Adler Meteor 12 (in Steve Soboroff's collection) 
• Benigno Aquino: Smith-Corona Skyriter (pictured on Filipino banknote)
• John Ashbery: Royal Aristocrat; Royal KMM (in Judith Krementz's The Writer's Desk, 1995) 
• Isaac Asimov: IBM Selectric I (photo; painting on cover of his Opus 200, IBM Selectric II
• Miguel Ángel Asturias: Hermes Baby or Rocket
• Paul Auster: Olympia SM9 (there's a book about his Olympia), Olivetti Lettera 22 (shown in 2013 interview)
• Rev. W. V. Awdry: Imperial 66
• Ingeborg Bachmann: Erika M, Facit TP1, Olivetti Studio 44 (1964), Olympia SG3
• Letitia Baldrige: IBM Model C (photo ca. 1961)
• James Baldwin: Adler standard, Adler Gabriele 35 (another photo), Olympia SM7, Smith-Corona Coronamatic 2200 (story)
• J.G. Ballard: Olympia Monica (same machine here? or Olympia SM9)
  
• Donald Barthelme: early L.C. Smith? (1964 photo)
• L. Frank Baum: Smith Premier
• Betsy Beaton (author, Nov 1948): Underwood standard No. 6 
• Brendan Behan: Remington portable no. 2
• Saul Bellow: Royal KMG, Smith-Corona electric 
• Stephen Vincent Benet: duotone 1920s Remington portable
• Mildred Benson (author of most of the Nancy Drew mysteries): 1972 Olivetti Linea 88B #B285379 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Ingrid Bergman: Smith-Corona Skyriter
• Wendell Berry: 1956 Royal standard (presumably an HH)
• Robert Bloch: Woodstock
• Enid Blyton: Imperial Good Companion (see her typing in this film)
• Andrea Bocelli: Perkins Brailler #B-1834 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Erma Bombeck: IBM Selectric I
• Bill Boni (WWII correspondent): Remington noiseless portable
• Roger Bowen (actor and author): Smith-Corona Citation electric
• Malcolm Bradbury: Smith Corona Automatic Electric, Olivetti Editor 5, and 1970s Olympia portable
• Ray Bradbury: 1947 Royal KMM #3756210 (in Steve Soboroff's collection), IBM Selectric, IBM Wheelwriter
• Barbara Taylor Bradford: IBM Wheelwriter (story)
• Marlon Brando: Royal De Luxe
• Bertolt Brecht: Erika
• Poppy Z. Brite: Smith-Corona Sterling Electric 12 (used to write Lost Souls; photo from eBay auction by Brite herself in 2013)
• Joseph Brodsky: Hermes Baby or Rocket
• Gwendolyn Brooks: Underwood 6
• Richard Brooks (director): Royal KMM, Royal portable ('30s-'40s)
• Joyce Brothers: IBM Selectric II 
• Helen Gurley Brown: Remington Rand, L.C. Smith 1930s/40s, Royal Empress, silver-plated Royal Empress
• John Brunner: Smith-Corona electrics (marked "NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE STUPIDITY OF EDITORS")
• Pearl S. Buck: Royal KMM (1967 photo) 
• Charles Bukowski: Royal HH, Underwood Standard, Olympia SG1, IBM Selectric II or III (see Bukowski's poem "IBM Selectric")
• Anthony Burgess: small Olympia portable, possibly a Splendid
• George Burns: Royal HH #HHP4841533 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• William S. Burroughs: 1950s, various typewriters, since he was constantly pawning them; many of his manuscripts were done on a Remington; Naked Lunch typed from handwritten notes by Kerouac, presumably on Kerouac's Underwood; Hermes Rocket (photo Oct. 1959); Antares (Burroughs shoots up as the Antares watches); Facit Portable (1965 Paris Review interview); Olympia SG1 (cover of Word Virus anthology, 1970s photo); Olivetti Studio 44 (1980s?).  
• Robert Olen Butler: Smith-Corona Galaxie Twelve (two-tone blue) 
• Herb Caen: Royal HH, Royal FP 
• Taylor Caldwell: Remington KMC or Super-Riter
• Italo Calvino: Olivetti Lettera 22 (photo 1, photo 2) 
• Stephen J. Cannell: IBM Selectric II or III
• Truman Capote: Royal HH, Smith-Corona Electra 110 #6SE2137001 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Robert Caro: Smith Corona Electra 210 ("Caro has nine spares that he can cannibalize for parts, and he collects ribbon like a hoarder." More here in Esquire, and here's a New York Times story about Caro and his writing habits, illustrated with a slide show.)
• Lewis Carroll: Hammond no. 1, received on May 3, 1888, used to write a mathematical treatise and some letters (story here)
• Johnny Carson: Royal KMG (or KMM), Olivetti Lettera 22
• Rachel Carson (in Jan. 1952 photo): Royal Quiet Deluxe, 1940s
• Howard Carter (archaeologist): Royal portable
• Raymond Carver: Smith-Corona electric 
• Nick Cave: gray Olivetti Lettera 25
• Blaise Cendrars (Swiss/French modernist): Remington No. 1 portable (his poem "baggage", written in the early 1920s and published in 1925, notes that he traveled to Brazil with "My Remington Portable latest model")
• Raymond Chandler: Underwood Noiseless, Olivetti Studio 44
• Paddy Chayefsky (playwright, May 1954): Underwood Standard Model 6, ca. 1946 
• John Cheever: Underwood Champion ca. 1940 (quite beat up in photo from 1971, from The Writer's Desk); Olivetti (Lettera 32?)
• Claire Chennault (US general, June1957): Royal Quiet Deluxe portable, ca. 1957 
• Agatha Christie: Remington Portable No. 2, Remington Victor T (British version of the streamlined model 5 portable)
• Arthur C. Clarke: Remington Noiseless Deluxe 
• Eldridge Cleaver: Underwood (probably no. 5)
• Leonard Cohen: Olivetti Lettera 22 (story)
• Jackie Collins:Blue Bird Torpedo, Olympia Splendid 
• Joan Collins: Olivetti Lettera 22
• Evan S. Connell: Olympia SM3 or SM4 De Luxe (photo has been retouched, obscuring keyboard), Olympia SM8
• Dan Cook, sports writer: Royal 10
• Alistair Cooke: Royal Quiet DeLuxe
• Francis Ford Coppola: Olivetti Lettera 32
• Julio Cortázar: Smith-Corona electric, Olympia Traveller 
• Norman Corwin, radio writer: flattop Corona, Royal KMM (1973 photo)
• Noel Coward: Royal KHM 
• Quentin Crisp: Remington portable #3
• Walter Cronkite: Smith-Corona '60s/'70s electric portable
• Bing Crosby: Corona 3 (in Steve Soboroff's collection), 1920s Royal portable 
• e.e. cummings: 1940s Smith-Corona Clipper
• Bette Davis: Remington Noiseless Portable
• Peter De Vries: Royal FP 
• Don Delillo: Olympia SM3 DeLuxe 
• Alice Denham: Royal HH (woman in photo sometimes misidentified as Maria Callas, but see here)
• Lester Dent: IBM Electromatic Executive
• Gwen Dew: Hermes Baby (called "Tappy")
• John Dewey: Underwood S
• Colin Dexter: Imperial Good Companion no. 4
• Daphne DuMaurier: Underwood portable
• Philip K. Dick: Hermes Rocket, Olympia SG3, IBM Selectric
• Joan Didion: Royal KMG, Hermes Ambassador
• Marlene Dietrich: Underwood no. 5 2487557-5 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Joe DiMaggio: flat-top maroon Corona Sterling (auctioned Dec. 2011) (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Isak Dinesen: Corona 3
• Stephen Dixon: Hermes 3000 (later model)
• Arthur Conan Doyle: Underwood (no. 5?)
• Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel): 1950s Smith-Corona portable (possibly a Silent-Super)
• Margaret Drabble: Adler Contessa (?)
• Paul Laurence Dunbar: Remington Standard No. 6 (Ohio Historical Society photo)
• Marguerite Duras: Olivetti MP1 (photo 1, photo 2)
• Lawrence Durrell: Olympia Splendid
• Bob Dylan: 1960s Royal portable (photo 1, photo 2), Olivetti Lettera 22 (1964 photo), Olivetti Lexikon 80, and on at least one occasion, an Olympia SG1 (watch him typing here while Joan Baez sings)
• Roger Ebert: Underwood 150
• Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower: Royal Futura
• T.S. Eliot: Smith-Corona flattop portable (1930s), Smith-Corona speedline portable (1940s) - photo 1, photo 2) 
• Harlan Ellison: Remington Rand 1940s portable, Olympia SG 3, Olympia SM9 (read an interview with Ellison that explains why he writes only on manual typewriters) 
• Ralph Ellison: Remington Noiseless Portable, early 1940s Royal Arrow, Olivetti Studio 44, IBM Selectric
• Stanley Elkin: Remington portable no. 2
• Joe Eszterhas: Olivetti Lettera 35 (story here)
• Douglas Fairbanks: Underwood 5
• Oriana Fallaci: Olivetti Studio 42, Olivetti Lettera 22 (photo 1, photo 2)
• Hans Fallada: Columbia Bar-Lock, Remington portable (no. 3?)
• Henry Farrell: Underwood
• James T. Farrell: L.C. Smith, Royal HH 
• Howard Fast: 1937 office Underwood, 1949 Olympia 
• William Faulkner: Royal KHM, Remington Noiseless desktop, 1930s Underwood portable photo 1 (in California), photo 2 (recent photo of an Underwood used by Faulkner)
• Edna Ferber: Remington understroke (no. 7?) (photo 1, photo 2)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Remington KMC
• M. F. K. Fisher: Underwood (no. 5?), Smith-Corona Galaxie-series portable
• Ian Fleming: Royal portables (one was gold-plated), Triumph Gabriele (1950s), Olympia SF
• E. M. Forster: Oliver no. 3 #99534 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Frederick Forsyth: Hermes Baby or Empire Aristocrat (1970 photo), Nakajima AX-150 (photo 1, photo 2: different machines, with different color keys)
• Michel Foucault: portable 
• Janet Frame: Brother DeLuxe 1350
• Pope Francis I: electric Olivetti
• Jonathan Franzen: Silver-Reed (for The Twenty-Seventh City)
• Ian Frazier: various Olympias
• Stan Freberg: Underwood-Olivetti Studio 44
• Max Frisch: Hermes Baby, Olivetti Lettera 25 (story)
• Robert Frost: Blickensderfer no. 5 (bought in 1900)
• Stephen Fry: Hermes 3000 (at least for the play "Latin! Or Tobacco and Boys"; see vol. 2 of The Fry Chronicles)
• Carlos Fuentes: 1950s Smith-Corona portable
• William Gaddis: portable manual Olympia
• Serge Gainsbourg: black IBM Selectric II
• Greta Garbo: Olympia SM 7 #2353070 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Gabriel García Márquez: Olivetti Lexikon 80, Torpedo 18 (1962 photo, photo 2)
• Erle Stanley Gardner: Underwood 5 
• John Gardner: IBM Selectric III (photo 1, photo 2)
• David Gerrold: 1966 IBM Selectric 
• William Gibson: Hermes 2000 
• Allen Ginsberg: Remington portable (no. 5?); Smith Corona Electra (in the 1980s) 
• Nikki Giovanni: Smith Corona Coronet electric portable
• Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook (founders of Provincetown Players): Oliver 5 (?)
• Red Grange: Underwood 
• Günter Grass: Olivetti Lettera 22, Olivetti Lettera 32
• John Howard Griffin: Underwood electric (1956 photo; Griffin was blind during this period)
• Matt Groening: Hermes Rocket
• Alex Haley: IBM Electric Model C, IBM Selectric (II?)
• Dashiell Hammett: Remington 12 or 16, Royal De Luxe 
• Peter Handke: Olympia Traveller 
• Tom Hanks: Smith-Corona Clipper, Hermes 2000 (his first serious typewriter), Hermes 3000 #3170162 (in Steve Soboroff's collection) (also collects other portables)
• Lorraine Hansberry: IBM Model 01
• Joel Chandler Harris: Hammond no. 2 
• Hugh Hefner: 1940s / '50s Royal portable
• Robert A. Heinlein: Underwood Electric in a soundproof housing
• Bill Heinz (sports writer, war correspondent): Remington portable #3 
• Joseph Heller: Smith Corona Classic 1960s portable
• Ernest Hemingway: Corona 3 (story here), Erika folding, 1926 Underwood portable #183598 (in Steve Soboroff's collection), Underwood Noiseless Portable (photo 1, photo 2 1944), various Royal portables (including a Royal Arrow, another Royal, and Royal P #P207059 in Steve Soboroff's collection), Halda portable model P 
• Katherine Hepburn: Royal De Luxe 
• Frank Herbert: 1940s L.C. Smith Super-Speed, Olympia SM3 
• James Herriot: Olivetti Lettera 32
• Hermann Hesse: Smith Premier No. 4 (with italic type, used from about 1908 to 1942); Remington Noiseless; Remington Quiet-Riter (another photo)
• Thor Heyerdahl: Hermes Featherweight (picture on board the Kon-Tiki; the typewriter may actually have belonged to fellow Kon-Tiki voyager Knut Haugland); Olivetti Studio 44 (used to write the book)
• Marguerite Higgins (war correspondent): Hermes Baby; Underwood Master; Erika no. 5
• Patricia Highsmith: Olympia SM3
• Alger Hiss (Jan. 1950): Woodstock standard #230099, 1929 
• Alfred Hitchcock: '30s black Underwood Champion portable
• Ho Chi Minh: Hermes Baby
• Robert E. Howard: Underwood
• Sidney Howard (screenwriter, Gone With the Wind): Remington Noiseless Portable #N49669
• L. Ron Hubbard: Remington Electric, Underwood no. 3, Remington Noiseless no. 9, Royal KHM, IBM Electromatic, Remington Noiseless
• John Hughes (director): Olympia SM3
• Langston Hughes: Remington portable no. 2 (photo 1, photo 2), Remington Noiseless Portable
• Zora Neale Hurston: Remington portable no. 5 or similar
• Aldous Huxley: Corona no. 3, Remington portable no. 5 (streamlined with touch regulator) (photo 2, 1946)
• Eugene Ionesco: Hermes 3000, rounded style 
• John Irving: IBM Selectric
• James Jones: Voss
• Tayari Jones: 1930s Corona Standard, 1930s Royal portable, 1950s Smith-Corona Silent-Super 
• Thom Jones: old Royal portable
• Ernst Jünger: Erika 5, AEG Olympia Traveller de Luxe
• Theodore Kaczynski (Unabomber): Smith-Corona flattop portable, Montgomery Ward Signature portable #F0670339
• Franz Kafka: Oliver 5 (according to Heinz Nixdorf Museums-Forum in Paderborn, Germany, when they put on an exhibit of typewriters)
• Erich Kästner: Gossen Tippa
• George S. Kaufman: L. C. Smith (pictured with Moss Hart)
• Elia Kazan: Royal KMG, Royal HH 
• Buster Keaton: Blickensderfer no. 5 
• Harry Stephen Keeler: L.C. Smith with carriage return lever on right 
• O. B. "Pop" Keeler (sportswriter): Underwood desktop
• Ruby Keeler (acress, singer, dancer): Royal 2-tone portable, 1920s 
• Helen Keller: Hammond; L.C. Smith no. 5 
• Murray Kempton: Royal KMM
• Jackie Kennedy: Royal electric (photo 1, photo 2)
• John F. Kennedy: Underwood Noiseless standard (at Harvard); Smith-Corona electric portable (during his 1960 presidential campaign)
• Jack Kerouac: Underwood portable (On the Road was typed on a continuous roll of paper on this machine); curvy Hermes 3000 (auctioned by Christie's in 2010) 
• Stephen King: Underwood SS, Royal FP, Royal Quiet Deluxe, Royal portable (same Quiet Deluxe?), Olivetti (unknown model) ("A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie."—Jacket flap for Blaze, by King pseudonym Richard Bachman.)
• Rudyard Kipling: Remington Noiseless (in late life)
• Austin Kiplinger (journalist and financial expert): 1940s Underwood standard (2010 photo)
• Danilo Kiš: Olympia Monica
• P. F. Kluge: 1920s-30s Royal desktops and some others (see photo)
• Wolfgang Koeppen: 1950s Triumph portable 
• Stanley Kubrick: Adler Tippa S
• Ann Landers (Esther Lederer) (Jan. 1957): Olivetti Lettera 22 
• Ring Lardner: L. C. Smith
• Stan Laurel: Olympia SM3 or SM4 (in the '50s and '60s)
• Gypsy Rose Lee (striptease dancer and writer): Royal portable (1949 photo); IBM model 01 (1956 photo, later photo)
• Laurie Lee: folding Corona 3
• Stan Lee: Remington noiseless portable, Olympia SG1
• Stanislaw Lem: Remington noiseless portable (photo 1, photo 2), Triumph Gabriele 
• Madeleine L'Engle: IBM Model D (1977)
• John Lennon: Imperial Good Companion T #2HJ 786 (in Steve Soboroff's collection), IBM Model C 
• Elmore Leonard: Olympia SG3 (1983, 1992), Olivetti Lettera DL, IBM Wheelwriter
• David Letterman: Royal Empress
• Primo Levi: Olivetti Lettera 36 electric
• C. S. Lewis: Royal Signet #ES 14545 (read more about this typewriter on La Vie Graphite)
• Sinclair Lewis: Fox standard, Corona 3, Underwood 6, Remington Noiseless Portable 
• Astrid Lindgren: Halda portable, Facit T2, Facit 1620
• Clarice Lispector: 1950s Underwood portable (photo 1, photo 2), Olympia SF
• Alan Lomax: Hermes 2000
• Jack London: Bar-Lock no. 10 #90808 (in Steve Soboroff's collection), Standard Folding, Corona no. 3 (endorsed in 1916 ad)
• H. P. Lovecraft: 1904 Remington Standard (understroke)
• Morris Lurie: Hermes 3000, Olivetti portable
• John D. MacDonald: IBM Selectric I
• Alistair MacLean: Remington portable (Quiet-Riter?) (1960 photo)
• Bernard Malamud:  1930s-40s Royal portable; Hermes 2000 (in 1971)
• David Malouf: Erika
• David Mamet: Smith-Corona portable, Olympia SM4, IBM Selectric
• William Manchester: Underwood no. 5
• Herbert Marcuse: Hermes 9 (1968 photo)
• Javier Marías: Olympia Carrera de Luxe (his article about it in Spanish is here)
• William Maxwell (New Yorker fiction editor): SCM Coronamatic electric with 11" carriage
• John Mayer: Brother daisywheel electronic
• Cormac McCarthy: blue Olivetti Lettera 32 (New York Times story)
• Mary McCarthy: Remington portable no. 3 (Dec. 1943 photo)
• Carson McCullers: Underwood Standard, 1930s; Remington noiseless portable; Olympia SM3 (1961)
• Colleen McCullough: Blue Bird, Royal standard ca. 1970, IBM Wheelwriter
• David McCullough: Royal De Luxe, Royal KMM (1981 photo, circa 2002 photo) (Levenger's offers a typewriter bookend modeled on McCullough's KMM. Read about McCullough and his KMM on the Levenger's blog, and read his own typed account of why he loves his typewriter in these three parts: one, two, three.)
• Ian McEwan: Olivetti (Lettera 32?)
• Kevin McGowin (American writer and teacher): Underwood #5, Underwood Standard 1930s, Olivetti Lettera 22/32, Olympia SM3/4
• Russell McLauchlin (Detroit News drama critic): Remington 12 (?)
• Iris Murdoch: Bijou (Erika) 
• Larry McMurtry: Hermes 3000 (he thanked his typewriter at the 2006 Golden Globes). 
• Terrence McNally: Olympia SG3 
• H.L.Mencken: Remington Standard understroke (#6 or 7?), LC Smith 5, Corona folding, Remington Noiseless Portable 
• James Merrill (American poet): IBM Selectric 
• Grace Metalious: Royal desktop 
• James Michener: Olympia SM; Olympia SG3 (1974)
• Arthur Miller bought a used Smith-Corona portable in the late '30s (for one anonymous contest, he submitted a play that he said was "by Corona."). When he became more successful, he switched to a Royal KMG (1955 photo, another photo). He wrote his later plays on an IBM desktop computer. (Arthur Miller: His Life and Work, by Martin Gottfried, p. 26, 112, and 381.)
• Henry Miller: Underwood 
• Margaret Mitchell: Remington portable #3, Underwood #5 
• Sir Patrick Moore: Woodstock
• Elsa Morante: IBM Selectric I
• Alberto Moravia: Remington portable (Quiet-Riter?), Olivetti Studio 44, Olivetti Diaspron 82 
• Morrissey: Olympia Traveller, Smith-Corona S301 electric 
• Gianni Mura (Italian sportswriter): Olivetti Lettera 32
• Gerald Murnane: Remington Monarch (machine #1, machine #2), Adler Standard (video here)
• F. W. Murnau: Remington portable no. 2 (1931 photo)
• Jim Murray: Remington 17 (1945)
• Edward R. Murrow: 1940s Royal Quiet De Luxe (photo 1, photo 2)
• Vladimir Nabokov (dictating to his wife Vera): Royal portable
• Ralph Nader: Smith-Corona Skyriter (while a student at Princeton); Underwood standards
• Pablo Neruda: Underwood 3-bank portable 
• John Nichols: Hermes Rocket, Olympia portable (as stated in the 1994 20th anniversary edition of The Milagro Beanfield War)
• Anaïs Nin: Olympia SM3 (photo 1, photo 2)
• David Niven (1950): Royal Quiet DeLuxe, 1940s
• Richard Nixon: L.C. Smith
• Sterling North: Underwood standard, Royal HH
• Joyce Carol Oates: SCM Smith Corona Electra 220
• Flann O'Brien: 1916 Underwood no. 3 #14"/178622 
• Tim O'Brien: wide-carriage black prewar Royal standard
• Sean O'Casey: Continental
• Flannery O'Connor: Remington Deluxe Noiseless Portable, "1941 line" (in her bedroom), Royal P (in museum at her home)
• Frank O'Hara: Royal FP (1965 photo)
• Clifford Odets (1962): Royal Quiet DeLuxe, ca. 1957
• J.C. Oldfield (editor of the Associated Press's London bureau, 1930s): Woodstock
• Walter J. Ong, SJ: Smith-Corona Classic 12
• Roy Orbison: Underwood TM5
• P. J. O'Rourke: IBM Selectric
• Joe Orton: Adler Tippa, Adler Universal 40 
• George Orwell: Remington Home Portable (name variant of the #3) 
• Ruth Park: Underwood Golden Touch Universal 
• Dorothy Parker: Smith Corona portable (photo 1941), Royal KMM
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: Olivetti Lettera 22
• Georges Perec used three typewriters in his life: an Underwood 5 (undoubedly aware of its unique non-uniqueness, he dubbed it an 'Underwood Four Million'), an IBM Selectric, and an Olivetti ET 221 (source: Georges Perec: a life in words, by David Bellos, p. 262.)
• Fernando Pessoa: Royal 10 with double glass windows
• Rosamunde Pilcher (1990): 1970s Hermes 3000
• Luigi Pirandello: Underwood three-bank portable (photo of Pirandello dictating to himself, photo of his machine)
• Pope Pius XII: Olivetti Studio 42 (On cover of 1946 TIME magazine)
• Sylvia Plath: Royal HH, Olivetti Lettera 22 #C8850 (UK made), Hermes 2000, Hermes 3000 #3011432 (1959) 
• George Plimpton: Underwood Standard 1947-50 black Rhythm Touch
• Louis Pollack (screenwriter): Royal desktop 
• Katherine Anne Porter: IBM Selectric 
• Ezra Pound : Everest 90 portable (May 1940)
• Anthony Powell (1973): Olympia SM 8
• Katharine Susannah Prichard: Remington portable #1
• J.B. Priestley: Imperial Good Companion 
• James Purdy (American novelist): Olivetti Lettera 32
• Ernie Pyle: Corona 3; Remington Noiseless (photo 1, photo 2)
• Thomas Pynchon: Olivetti portable
• Ayn Rand: Royal 10
• Grantland Rice: Royal 10
• Adrienne Rich: 1970s Hermes 3000
• Robby the Robot (from "Forbidden Planet"): Remington Super-Riter
• Harold Robbins: IBM Selectric II,  IBM Wheelwriter III #4B73700 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Roy Rogers (publicity shot when young): Remington Noiseless standard, early 1940s, black&shiny, bakelite keys, spool crank 
• Will Rogers: Remington portable #3, ca. 1930 Royal portable (in the plane with Rogers at the time of his death)
• Andy Rooney: various Underwood no. 5's including #2501299-5 (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Eleanor Roosevelt: L. C. Smith Super-Speed 
• Philip Roth (Dec 1968): Olivetti Lettera 32
• Juan Rulfo: Remington Rand KMC #J1385142 (made March 1948; bought Nov. 10, 1953)
• Damon Runyon: Underwood 6, Royal portable (1944 photo), Remington or Underwood Noiseless standard 
• Ernesto Sabato: Olivetti Praxis 48
• Françoise Sagan: Hermes Baby (1956 photo, 1958 photo), 1950s Smith-Corona portable (photo 1, photo 2)
• Carl Sandburg: Underwood 5
• José Saramago: Hermes 2000
• William Saroyan: Fox
• Arnold Schönberg: ca. 1933 Smith-Corona portable
• Leonardo Sciascia: Olivetti Lettera 22 
• David Sedaris: IBM Selectric II
• Will Self: Groma Kolibri
• Rod Serling: Royal KMM
• Robert W. Service: Corona, Underwood 3-bank portable 
• Anne Sexton: Royal Quiet Deluxe
• George Bernard Shaw: Bar-Lock; Remington portable no. 1; Smith Premier (Remington); Remington Noiseless Portable #N40911 (made Nov. 1933; now in Steve Soboroff's collection; see Shaw using it at 2:00 in this film)
• Irwin Shaw: Royal 10, Underwood, Olivetti Studio 44
• Sam Shepard: '60s Hermes 3000, Olympia SM9 
• Jerry Siegel (co-creator of Superman): '30s Royal portable
• Georges Simenon: Royal 10 with double glass sides, Royal KH or KHM, Royal KMM (1945 photo), Olivetti Lettera 32, IBM Selectric I
• Neil Simon: Olympia SM9
• Upton Sinclair: Underwood 6 
• Isaac Bashevis Singer: Remington #3 portable; Remington portable #5 flat top (1978 photo); Hebrew Underwood Universal, 1940s 
• Red Smith: Olympia SM7, Olympia SF 
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Rheinmetall KsT portable (in photo with Solzhenitsyn), Erika 10 portable (on display at Solzhenitsyn Foundation in Moscow)
• Mickey Spillane: Royal KHM, Smith-Corona Super Speed (1952 photo 1, photo 2, photo 3, typewriter as offered on eBay in 2010)
• Robert St. John: Hermes Baby (1962 photo)
• Jean Stafford: '30s Royal portable
• Christina Stead: Royal KMM
• Joseph Stefano (Psycho screenwriter): Olympia SG1
• Danielle Steel: Olympia SG1 (Vanity Fair photos)
• Wallace Stegner: Olympia SG3
• John Steinbeck: Hermes Baby, IBM Model C 
• Robert Louis Stevenson: Hammond
• I.F. Stone (independent journalist): desktop Remington ca. 1930
• Joe Strummer: Remington Envoy III 
• William Styron: SCM Smith Corona Electra 210
• Jacqueline Susann: Olympia SG1
• John Cameron Swayze: Cole-Steel
• John Millington Synge: Blickensderfer #5
• Gay Talese: Olivetti Lettera 22
• Shirley Temple: white Student (Bing variant, in Smithsonian), white Underwood Champion portable with plaque reading "To 'America's Pet' Shirley Temple" (machine, in use, display) (in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Studs Terkel: Remington 17 or KMC
• Dylan Thomas: Imperial Good Companion (story)
• Dorothy Thompson: Royal 10
• Hunter S. Thompson: Olympia SF, IBM Selectric, IBM Wheelwriter
• James Thurber: Underwood #5 
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Hammond
• Leo Tolstoy (dictating to his daughter): Remington understroke (retouched photo 1, retouched photo 2)
• Mark Twain: Sholes & Glidden, Hammond no. 2 (more information here)
• Francisco Umbral: Olivetti Valentine
• John Updike: Olympia SM3 (1962 photo); Olivetti MP1 portable; Olivetti Linea 88 (in 1990s photo); Olympia 65C electric #183017 (auctioned at Christie's, 2010; now in Steve Soboroff's collection)
• Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby): IBM Model B electric (1962 photo)
• Boris Vian: Underwood 3-bank portable
• Gore Vidal: Olivetti Lettera 22 (photo 1), Olivetti Lettera 22 (photo 2), Smith-Corona portable, Olivetti Lettera 35
• Luchino Visconti: Olivetti Lettera 22
• Kurt Vonnegut: Smith-Corona Courier, Smith-Corona Coronamatic 2200
• Tom Waits: Underwood no. 5
• Derek Walcott: Montgomery Ward Escort 350 (made by Brother, type JP-7)
• David Foster Wallace: Smith-Corona (model information needed)
• Robert Penn Warren: Olympia SM3, Hermes Ambassador
• Orson Welles: 1926 woodgrain Underwood portable #4B73700 (in Steve Soboroff's collection), ’30s Underwood Noiseless Portable
• Eudora Welty: Royal Standard HH 
• Donald Westlake: Smith-Corona Silent-Supers
• E.B. White: 1930s/40s Underwood (photo 1, photo 2); Underwood Quiet Tab Deluxe
• Patrick White: Optima portable 
• Richard Wilbur: L. C. Smith (photo 1, photo 2)
• Nancy Willard: decorated Remington portable no. 2 
• Joy Williams: Smith-Corona portables (seven of them, according to a 2014 interview)
• Tennessee Williams: 1936 Corona Junior #1F9874J (in Steve Soboroff's collection), Corona Sterling, mid-1940s, Royal KMM, Hermes Baby (gift from Margo Jones, 1947, according to John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, Bloomsbury, 2014), Olivetti Studio 44 (picture 1, picture 2, picture 3, picture 4 1955), Remington portable #5 flat top, Remington Standard M, 1960s (1972 photo), Olympia SM8. (This man loved to have himself photographed with his writing machines!)
• William Carlos Williams: Underwood standard (no. 5?), Royal electric
• Woodrow Wilson: Hammonds (including a Multiplex and a green aluminum Multiplex)
• P.G. Wodehouse: Monarch; 1940s Royal desktop (bought reluctantly when the Monarch died); Royal standard electric (1973 photo) 
• Tom Wolfe: Underwood Typemaster (shown shortly after 5:00 on this video)
• Virginia Woolf: Underwood portable
• Cornell Woolrich: Remington portable #1 or #2
• Richard Wright: Royal desktop (KHM?), ca. 1940 Royal Arrow (1945 photo)
• Philip Wylie: Remington noiseless portable 
• Marguerite Yourcenar: Remington portable #1 or #2, Royal Futura 800 or similar, unidentified portable
• Stefan Zweig: 1930s Underwood portable