Stephen King Publishes the Earliest Fictional Treatment of Word Processing by a Prominent Literary Author

1/1983
Cover of the issue of Playboy in which Stephen King's story, "The Word Processor," first appeared.

Cover of the issue of Playboy in which Stephen King's story, "The Word Processor," first appeared.

A short story by American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, columnist, actor, television producer, film director Stephen King published in the January 1983 issue of Playboy Magazine, under the title of "The Word Processor", may be the earliest fictional treatment of word processing by a prominent literary author. This story, which King wrote on a Wang dedicated word processing microcomputer known as the Wang System 5, was later retitled "Word Processor of the Gods."

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