Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions globally, but the software's Haitian-born cover model vanished decades ago. Two DIY detectives search for the model while posing questions about ...

The mythical Mavis Beacon who taught typing to a generation. The new documentary “Seeking Mavis Beacon” chronicles a quest for the woman who lent her face to the computer game.

Generations learned to type using the Mavis Beacon software—and had no idea she wasn’t a real person. But what about the model used for her image, who vanished from the public eye?

The cover image from "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Version 2.0," from 1991. Screenshot via Amazon UK For millions of people, their first introduction to a keyboard came by way of Mavis Beacon.

Mavis Beacon taught the world to type. Starting in the late 1980s, a software program featuring the eponymous instructor drilled computer users on their keyboard skills, selling more than 10 ...

The filmmakers behind “Seeking Mavis Beacon” wanted to know what happened to the Black woman who was paid only a couple hundred dollars to be the face of a wildly successful typing program. To ...

Long before apps and smartphones, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing was a program that helped with touch-typing skills. The program's fictional icon spurs an investigation.

The new documentary "Seeking Mavis Beacon" dives into the story of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, a software program first developed in the late 1980s. Skip to main content. WBUR.

An exciting presentation in Sundance’s NEXT section, Jazmin Jones' unconventional film chronicles a Don Quixote-like expedition to locate the model who appeared on a popular typing program ...