author

Noun
  1. Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) (synset 110813654)
    is a type of: communicator - a person who communicates with others
    subtypes:
    • abstracter, abstractor - one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
    • alliterator - a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration
    • authoress - a woman author
    • biographer - someone who writes an account of a person's life
    • coauthor, joint author - a writer who collaborates with others in writing something
    • commentator, reviewer - a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
    • compiler - a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
    • contributor - a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book
    • cyberpunk - a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
    • drafter - a writer of a draft
    • dramatist, playwright - someone who writes plays
    • essayist, litterateur - a writer of literary works
    • folk writer - a writer of folktales
    • framer - someone who writes a new law or plan
    • gagman, gagster, gagwriter - someone who writes comic material for public performers
    • ghost, ghostwriter - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
    • gothic romancer - a writer of Gothic romances
    • hack, hack writer, literary hack - a mediocre and disdained writer
    • journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines
    • librettist - author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
    • lyricist, lyrist - a person who writes the words for songs
    • novelist - one who writes novels
    • pamphleteer - a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)
    • paragrapher - a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)
    • poet - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
    • polemic, polemicist, polemist - a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
    • poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier - a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
    • scenarist - a writer of screenplays
    • scriptwriter - someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas
    • space writer - a writer paid by the area of the copy
    • speechwriter - a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver
    • tragedian - a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
    • wordmonger - a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning
    • word-painter - a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power
    • wordsmith - a fluent and prolific writer
    specific instances:
    same as: writer
  2. Someone who originates or causes or initiates something (synset 110145714)
    "he was the generator of several complaints"
    is a type of: maker, shaper - a person who makes things
    subtypes: coiner - someone who is a source of new words or new expressions
    same as: generator, source
Verb
  1. Be the author of (synset 201708311)
    "She authored this play"
    referred to in: authorship, composition, penning, writing - the act of creating written works
    is a type of: compose, indite, pen, write - produce a literary work
    subtypes:

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