Mark Twain was a suppose the best known author to have been employed as a typographer. For that matter, one of the vagabonds in Huckleberry Finn, I forget whether Duke or Dauphin, evidently knows his way around the type case and the press.

The Monotype System must have been one of the earliest uses of paper tape for encoding information--see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotype_System .