What is the definition of
author
1.
[ noun ]
(writing) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
Synonyms:
writer
Related terms:
communicator
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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
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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