author has definitions from the fields of work,writing
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[ noun ] (writing) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Synonyms

writer

Used in print

(Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)

The author has recently studied the field of medical electronics and has been convinced that , in this area alone , the application of electronic_equipment has enormous possibilities .

(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)

`` The sexual_relationship does not exist in a vacuum '' , declares Dr._Mary_Steichen_Calderone , medical director of the Planned_Parenthood_Federation_of_America and author of the recent book , Release From Sexual Tensions .

(Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions , because a man is not the same as his writing : in_the_last_analysis , the questions had to be settled by the work itself .

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

To carry_out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale .

Of few authors is this more true than of Heidenstam .

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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

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[ noun ] (work) someone who originates or causes or initiates something

Synonyms

source generator

Examples

"he was the generator of several complaints"

Used in print

(Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)

Merely to satisfy the author 's curiosity .

But I said I would first have_to get the author 's permission .

Related terms

maker coiner generate

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[ verb ] (writing) be the author of

Examples

"She authored this play"

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write ghost co-author writing

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