Introduction to word processing

by Hal Glatzer

Book by Glatzer, Hal

210 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1982

About the author

Born and raised in Manhattan, Glatzer went to public schools, the Bronx High School of Science, Syracuse University for a BA in English, and the University of Hawaii for an MA in Communication. But his writing career began in daily journalism. As a newspaper and television reporter in the 1970s, he found his ideal beat covering the “silicon revolution,” the rise of communication satellites, small computers and other personal electronic devices. He wrote four nonfiction books on those subjects which were published in the ’80s, and stayed on the high-tech beat until the mid-’90s, when—ironically—the internet killed the market for “computer magazines.” But he got his first mystery novel out of that beat. THE TRAPDOOR, about a hacker who gets in trouble hacking for organized crime, was published in 1986.

When Glatzer is not working as an author, he works as a musician, playing jazz guitar and singing “the Great American Songbook” from Tin Pan Alley and Broadway.