author
1. [ noun ] (writing) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Synonyms: writer
Related terms: communicator more poet Rousseau Voltaire novelist lyricist dramatist journalist James Gothic_romancer folk_writer Thoreau contributor tragedian gagman Melville Kipling wordsmith Beckett ghostwriter Cervantes Conan_Doyle hack drafter Grimm Hemingway librettist colette conrad benchley Andersen bradbury Carroll artemus_ward Churchill burroughs Dostoevski albert_camus Grimm chesterton clemens Kafka crane Roosevelt pamphleteer encyclopedist biographer authoress de_quincey Sade paragrapher alexandre_dumas durrell Shaw essayist eliot farrell Tolstoy alliterator poetizer scriptwriter edmond_de_goncourt ambrose_bierce borges boswell hagard bronte bronte anne_bronte frank_harris buck bunyan burnett heyse burroughs cabell caldwell howells cather chandler chateaubriand baum agatha_christie helen_hunt_jackson cocteau jacobs collins james_augustine_aloysius_joyce cooper ken_elton_kesey cummings clarence_day daniel_defoe david_john_moore_cornwell charles_dickens dos_passos dreiser clarence_malcolm_lowry dame_daphne_du_maurier scenarist ehrenberg coauthor emerson ford edna_ferber fielding f._scott_fitzgerald flaubert fleming c._s._forester wordmonger anatole_france benjamin_franklin alger space_writer carlos_fuentes emile_gaboriau anderson galsworthy erle_stanley_gardner aragon speechwriter framer dr._seuss elizabeth_cleghorn_stevenson_gaskell genet goncourt gordimer grahame grass graves graham_greene grey gibran elizabeth_haldane edward_everett_hale alex_haley hall dashiell_hammett hamsun hardy austen bret_harte hawthorne ben_hecht heinlein heller hermann_hesse aiken asch dubois_heyward higginson algren e._t._a._hoffmann holmes asimov auchincloss gogol edmond_hoyle hughes james_arthur_baldwin hunt aldous_huxley barth barthelme gjellerup irving irving christopher_isherwood golding saul_bellow benet jacobs goldsmith jensen dr._johnson arna_wendell_bontemps beerbohm kay_boyle helen_adams_keller jack_kerouac baraka arthur_koestler william_s._burroughs jean_de_la_fontaine lardner francois_de_la_rochefoucauld d._h._lawrence lawrence word-painter cheever dutch_leonard lermontov c._s._lewis kate_chopin harry_sinclair_lewis jack_london commentator abstractor
2. [ noun ] (work) someone who originates or causes or initiates something
Synonyms: source generator
Examples:

"he was the generator of several complaints"

Related terms: maker coiner generate
3. [ verb ] (writing) be the author of
Examples:

"She authored this play"

Related terms: write ghost co-author writing
Similar spelling:   Autry
  Audry
  Audra