Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks is one of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, a two-time Academy Award winner (for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump) whose roles run from Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan to Cast Away and the voice of Woody in Toy Story. Off screen he is a genuine man of letters and an avid collector of typewriters, a fascination that shaped his fiction. His 2017 story collection Uncommon Type and his 2023 debut novel about moviemaking show a writer as curious about ordinary American lives as about the machinery of Hollywood.