Karen Hesse

I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

American Author

Jeffrey Toobin

Courtney Vance and I are college classmates, weirdly enough. We're both Harvard class of 1982. Courtney, as a work-study job, was a typesetter at the Harvard 'Crimson,' the newspaper where I worked.

American Lawyer

Originally, typesetters manually arranged letters for printing; now, it's mostly digital.

Historical Role

Modern typesetters are likely to use computers, not physical type.

Technological Shift

Typesetters are important in publishing; they ensure the text appearance is correct.

Publishing Link

 That was the Paige typesetter. The Paige typesetter had 18,000 parts. The patent had 64 pages of text and 271 figures. It was such a beautiful machine because it did everything that a human being did

Edward Tenner:...

 was a big investor in the most complex machine of all times at least until 1918 registered with the US Patent Office that was the page typesetter the page