Academy award-winning actor Tom Hanks is set to publish a book of short stories inspired by his collection of vintage typewriters according to an announcement made on Monday, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Publishing company Alfred A. Knopf made the announcement Monday, saying that they would be working with Hanks and his literary agent Esther Newberg at ICM to release a book of short stories. Pether Gethers, the senior vice president and editor at large of Penguin Random House, will also be on hand to edit the book.

The project was described as "a collection of stories loosely connected to photographs of typewriters from Hanks' personal collection."

The 58-year-old actor said in a statement "I've been collecting typewriters for no particular reason since 1987 - both manual and portable machines dating from the thirties to the nineties. The stories are not about the typewriters themselves, but rather, the stories are something that might have been written on one of them."

Knopf's book deal follows after Hanks published his first short story, "Alan Bean Pus Four," in the Oct. 27 issue of The New Yorker. It was said to be inspired by Hanks' film and television works "Apollo 13" and "From the Earth to the Moon," and tells the story of four teenagers who built a rocket out of parts from a Home Depot and used it to fly to the moon.

Hanks claimed that he loved writing fiction and revealed his literary heroes in Chaim Potok and Alan Furst in an interview on Oct. 27 with New Yorker Fiction Editor Deborah Treisman. At the time, he expressed his hopes to write more stories.

"I've been around great storyteller all my life and, like an enthusiastic student, I want to tell some of my own," he said. "I read so much nonfiction that the details stack up in my head and need a rearranging sometimes."

No title or publication date for Hanks' book has been announced, and the details of the book deal which will include world English rights, an audiobook and an e-book, were also not disclosed.