[jonjacky]

The Nobel prize winning author J. M. Coetzee worked as a programmer when he was young - he describes it in his autobiographical novel, Youth. The promiment novelist Richard Powers worked as a programmer when he was young - that part of his life is described in the recent book, The Friendly Orange Glow.

[badpun]

Michel Houellebecq was doing simple (back in the nineties) web dev for the European Parliament while writing his first novel.