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2 unusual facts about technical writer


Technical writer

Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance wrote technical manuals for IBM, while working on the bestselling book.

Marcia Wilbur, American author of A Decade of the DMCA wrote technical documentation for Microchip, while working on the book.


Jeff Crook

Jeff Crook is a novelist, author, and former technical writer for the United States Postal Service.


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Ann Rockley

In the early 1980s, she got her first permanent job as a junior technical writer at I. P. Sharp Associates.

Dru Lavigne

Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, technical writer and director at FreeBSD Foundation.

Gene DeWeese

He worked for General Motors' Delco Electronics Division as an electronics technician in Kokomo, Indiana from 1954–1959, and as a technical writer (including for the Apollo Program) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin from 1959 to 1974 (when he became a full-time freelance writer).

Joseph Samachson

Comics historian Jerry Bails wrote that Samachson worked as a Research Chemist for the American Molasses Company until 1938, leaving to become a "freelance technical writer".

Tom Lehmann

Thomas Lehmann, economist, programmer, boardgame publisher, game designer, and technical writer

Yvonne Sapia

After working as a newspaper reporter and technical writer, she returned to academia, receiving an MFA in creative writing from the University of Florida in Gainesville.