What was the first novel ever written on a typewriter?

xterminal

According to the forums, it's Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. :) Apr 25 00, 1:39 PM

zbeckabee

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- "A few months later, however, the story changed altogether with the simple act of employing a secretary. Hired primarily to assist with the writer’s correspondence, this young woman also turned out to have more patience and more success with his little toy. In no time at all, she had copied a large portion of his work-in-progress, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, on the new-fangled writing machine, making Mark Twain the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature." http://www.readingwriters.com/TheVERB_vol4-iss3.htm Feb 01 08, 9:21 PM

Baloo55th

At the time, the thing written on was a typewriting machine and the typewriter was the person operating it. For some gorgeous pictures of early and weird machines, see: http://staff.xu.edu/~polt/typewriters/tw-history.html Feb 02 08, 3:48 PM

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