Mary Adelman, The Typewriter Whisperer Of New York, Has Died At 89

Her shop was like a (crowded, metal-and-ribbon-smelly) office of therapy for writers when the typewriters clogged up. "The shop attended to the typewriters of such well-known writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, David Mamet, Erich Maria Remarque, Nora Ephron, Gene Shalit and Philip Roth. Joseph Heller had a Smith-Corona with keys that flew off (they were soldered back on). The novelist David Handler was so grateful for Mrs. Adelman’s assistance that he made her a character in a mystery, The Girl Who Ran Off With Daddy."

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