List of copywriters
This is a list of well-known advertising copywriters who founded a major multinational agency, have been inducted into an advertising hall of fame, have been recognized with a lifetime achievement award, or have considerable influence in the copywriting world.
- John Emory Powers (1837–1919), the world's first full-time copywriter[1][2][3]
- David Abbott, founder of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO[4]
- William Bernbach, founder of DDB Worldwide
- Drayton Bird, founder of THB&W
- Leo Burnett, founder of Leo Burnett Worldwide
- Fairfax M. Cone, founder of Foote Cone & Belding
- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon, 1982 Advertising Hall of Fame inductee
- Jo Foxworth, key writer at McCann Erickson
- Stan Freberg (born 1926)
- David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy & Mather
- Dave Trott Founder of GGT, Bainsfair Sharkey Trott and former Chairman and Executive Creative Director of The Gate London, copywriter, blogger and author
Former copywriters
Many creative people spend time early in their careers working as advertising copywriters. This is a list of such people – specifically, people who worked as copywriters before achieving fame in a non-advertising career. The names are followed by the careers in which they are famous.
- Sherwood Anderson, author
- Augusten Burroughs, author
- Helen Gurley Brown, former publisher and editor (Cosmopolitan)
- Peter Carey, author
- Bryce Courtenay, author
- Don DeLillo, author
- Kenny Everett, comedian and radio DJ
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, author
- Kitty Flanagan, comedian
- Terry Gilliam, director and animator
- Alec Guinness, actor
- Dashiell Hammett, author
- Hugh Hefner, publisher (Playboy)
- Joseph Heller, author
- Russell Hoban, author
- John Hughes, director, writer
- Thom Jones, author
- Tim Kazurinsky, comedian
- Elmore Leonard, author
- Rick Moranis, actor
- Ogden Nash, poet
- Bob Newhart, comedian and actor
- Alan Parker, director
- Steven Pressfield, author
- Franc Roddam, director
- Salman Rushdie, author
- John Safran, documentarian and broadcaster
- Indra Sinha, author
- Dorothy L. Sayers, author
- Chrissie Swan, TV and radio presenter
- Fay Weldon, author
See also
- Category:Copywriters
References
- ↑ Patrick Robertson (11 November 2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts: Who Did What for the First Time. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 1893–1894. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
- ↑ Jens Olesen (1998). Normal People Do Not Work in Advertising. Dados internacionais de catalogacao na publicidade. p. 2. ISBN 978-85-900682-1-1.
- ↑ Joel Shrock (30 June 2004). The Gilded Age. ABC-CLIO. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-313-06221-6.
- ↑ "Clio 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award" (Press release). Clio Awards.
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