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Noun author has 2 senses
- writer, author - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
--1 is a kind of communicator
--1 has particulars: | | abstractor, abstracter; alliterator; authoress; biographer; coauthor, joint author; commentator, reviewer; contributor; cyberpunk; drafter; dramatist, playwright; encyclopedist, encyclopaedist, compiler; essayist, litterateur; folk writer; framer; gagman, gagster, gagwriter; ghostwriter, ghost; Gothic romancer; hack, hack writer, literary hack; journalist; librettist; lyricist; novelist; pamphleteer; paragrapher; poet; polemicist, polemist, polemic; rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser; scenarist; scriptwriter; space writer; speechwriter; tragedian; wordmonger; word-painter; wordsmith; Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken; Alger, Horatio Alger; Algren, Nelson Algren; Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen; Anderson, Sherwood Anderson; Aragon, Louis Aragon; Asch, Sholem Asch, Shalom Asch, Sholom Asch; Asimov, Isaac Asimov; Auchincloss, Louis Auchincloss, Louis Stanton Auchincloss; Austen, Jane Austen; Baldwin, James Baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin; Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones; Barth, John Barth, John Simmons Barth; Barthelme, Donald Barthelme; Baum, Frank Baum, Lyman Frank Brown; Beckett, Samuel Beckett; Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm; Belloc, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc; Bellow, Saul Bellow; Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley; Benet, William Rose Benet; Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce; Boll, Heinrich Boll, Heinrich Theodor Boll; Bontemps, Arna Wendell Bontemps; Borges, Jorge Borges, Jorge Luis Borges; Boswell, James Boswell; Boyle, Kay Boyle; Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Douglas Bradbury; Bronte, Charlotte Bronte; Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Currer Bell; Bronte, Anne Bronte; Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward; Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck; Bunyan, John Bunyan; Burgess, Anthony Burgess; Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett; Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs; Burroughs, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs; Cabell, James Branch Cabell; Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Preston Caldwell; Calvino, Italo Calvino; Camus, Albert Camus; Canetti, Elias Canetti; Capek, Karel Capek; Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; Cather, Willa Cather, Willa Sibert Cather; Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra; Chandler, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Thornton Chandler; Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand; Cheever, John Cheever; Chesterton, G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; Chopin, Kate Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty Chopin; Christie, Agatha Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie; Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill; Clemens, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain; Cocteau, Jean Cocteau; Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Colette; Collins, Wilkie Collins, William Wilkie Collins; Conan Doyle, A. Conan Doyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Conrad, Joseph Conrad, Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski; Cooper, James Fenimore Cooper; Crane, Stephen Crane; cummings, e. e. cummings, Edward Estlin Cummings; Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.; Defoe, Daniel Defoe; De Quincey, Thomas De Quincey; Dickens, Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens; Didion, Joan Didion; Dinesen, Isak Dinesen, Blixen, Karen Blixen, Baroness Karen Blixen; Doctorow, E. L. Doctorow, Edgard Lawrence Doctorow; Dos Passos, John Dos Passos; Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski, Dostoevsky, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Feodor Dostoevski, Fyodor Dostoevski, Feodor Dostoevsky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky; Dreiser, Theodore Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser; Dumas, Alexandre Dumas; du Maurier, George du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier; du Maurier, Daphne du Maurier, Dame Daphne du Maurier; Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence George Durrell; Ehrenberg, Ilya Ehrenberg, Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenberg; Eliot, George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans; Ellison, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Ellison; Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson; Farrell, James Thomas Farrell; Ferber, Edna Ferber; Fielding, Henry Fielding; Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald; Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert; Fleming, Ian Fleming, Ian Lancaster Fleming; Ford, Ford Madox Ford, Ford Hermann Hueffer; Forester, C. S. Forester, Cecil Scott Forester; France, Anatole France, Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault; Franklin, Benjamin Franklin; Fuentes, Carlos Fuentes; Gaboriau, Emile Gaboriau; Galsworthy, John Galsworthy; Gardner, Erle Stanley Gardner; Gaskell, Elizabeth Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson Gaskell; Geisel, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss; Gibran, Kahlil Gibran; Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide; Gjellerup, Karl Gjellerup; Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol; Golding, William Golding, Sir William Gerald Golding; Goldsmith, Oliver Goldsmith; Gombrowicz, Witold Gombrowicz; Goncourt, Edmond de Goncourt, Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt; Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt; Gordimer, Nadine Gordimer; Gorky, Maksim Gorky, Gorki, Maxim Gorki, Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov, Aleksey Maximovich Peshkov; Grahame, Kenneth Grahame; Grass, Gunter Grass, Gunter Wilhelm Grass; Graves, Robert Graves, Robert Ranke Graves; Greene, Graham Greene, Henry Graham Greene; Grey, Zane Grey; Grimm, Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm; Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm; Haggard, Rider Haggard, Sir Henry Rider Haggard; Haldane, Elizabeth Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane; Hale, Edward Everett Hale; Haley, Alex Haley; Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall; Hammett, Dashiell Hammett, Samuel Dashiell Hammett; Hamsun, Knut Hamsun, Knut Pedersen; Hardy, Thomas Hardy; Harris, Frank Harris, James Thomas Harris; Harte, Bret Harte; Hasek, Jaroslav Hasek; Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne; Hecht, Ben Hecht; Heinlein, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Anson Heinlein; Heller, Joseph Heller; Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway; Hesse, Hermann Hesse; Heyse, Paul Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse; Heyward, DuBois Heyward, Edwin DuBois Hayward; Higginson, Thomas Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson; Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; Holmes, Oliver Wendell Holmes; Howells, William Dean Howells; Hoyle, Edmond Hoyle; Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard; Hughes, Langston Hughes, James Langston Hughes; Hunt, Leigh Hunt, James Henry Leigh Hunt; Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Aldous Leonard Huxley; Irving, John Irving; Irving, Washington Irving; Isherwood, Christopher Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood; Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson; Jacobs, Jane Jacobs; Jacobs, W. W. Jacobs, William Wymark Jacobs; James, Henry James; Jensen, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen; Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson; Jong, Erica Jong; Joyce, James Joyce, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce; Kafka, Franz Kafka; Keller, Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller; Kerouac, Jack Kerouac, Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac; Kesey, Ken Kesey, Ken Elton Kesey; Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Kipling; Koestler, Arthur Koestler; La Fontaine, Jean de La Fontaine; Lardner, Ring Lardner, Ringgold Wilmer Lardner; La Rochefoucauld, Francois de La Rochefoucauld; Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence, David Herbert Lawrence; Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia; le Carre, John le Carre, David John Moore Cornwell; Leonard, Elmore Leonard, Elmore John Leonard, Dutch Leonard; Lermontov, Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov; Lessing, Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing; Lewis, C. S. Lewis, Clive Staples Lewis; Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Harry Sinclair Lewis; London, Jack London, John Griffith Chaney; Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry; Lyly, John Lyly; Lytton, First Baron Lytton, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton; Mailer, Norman Mailer; Malamud, Bernard Malamud; Malory, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory; Malraux, Andre Malraux; Mann, Thomas Mann; Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp; Manzoni, Alessandro Manzoni; Marquand, John Marquand, John Philip Marquand; Marsh, Ngaio Marsh; Mason, A. E. W. Mason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason; Maugham, Somerset Maugham, W. Somerset Maugham, William Somerset Maugham; Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant; Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Francois Charles Mauriac; Maurois, Andre Maurois, Emile Herzog; McCarthy, Mary McCarthy, Mary Therese McCarthy; McCullers, Carson McCullers, Carson Smith McCullers; McLuhan, Marshall McLuhan, Herbert Marshall McLuhan; Melville, Herman Melville; Merton, Thomas Merton; Michener, James Michener, James Albert Michener; Miller, Henry Miller, Henry Valentine Miller; Milne, A. A. Milne, Alan Alexander Milne; Mitchell, Margaret Mitchell, Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell; Mitford, Nancy Mitford, Nancy Freeman Mitford; Mitford, Jessica Mitford, Jessica Lucy Mitford; Montaigne, Michel Montaigne, Michel Eyquem Montaigne; Montgomery, L. M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery; More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More; Morrison, Toni Morrison, Chloe Anthony Wofford; Munro, H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro, Saki; Murdoch, Iris Murdoch, Dame Jean Iris Murdoch; Musset, Alfred de Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de Musset; Nabokov, Vladimir Nabokov, Vladimir vladimirovich Nabokov; Nash, Ogden Nash; Nicolson, Harold Nicolson, Sir Harold George Nicolson; Norris, Frank Norris, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.; Oates, Joyce Carol Oates; O'Brien, Edna O'Brien; O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor, Mary Flannery O'Connor; O'Flaherty, Liam O'Flaherty; O'Hara, John Henry O'Hara; Ondaatje, Michael Ondaatje, Philip Michael Ondaatje; Orczy, Baroness Emmusca Orczy; Orwell, George Orwell, Eric Blair, Eric Arthur Blair; Page, Thomas Nelson Page; Parker, Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Rothschild Parker; Pasternak, Boris Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak; Paton, Alan Paton, Alan Stewart Paton; Percy, Walker Percy; Petronius, Gaius Petronius, Petronius Arbiter; Plath, Sylvia Plath; Pliny, Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus; Pliny, Pliny the Younger, Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus; Poe, Edgar Allen Poe; Porter, William Sydney Porter, O. Henry; Porter, Katherine Anne Porter; Post, Emily Post, Emily Price Post; Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound; Pynchon, Thomas Pynchon; Rand, Ayn Rand; Richler, Mordecai Richler; Roberts, Kenneth Roberts; Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt; Roth, Philip Roth, Philip Milton Roth; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Runyon, Damon Runyon, Alfred Damon Runyon; Rushdie, Salman Rushdie, Ahmed Salman Rushdie; Russell, George William Russell, A.E.; Sade, de Sade, Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade, Marquis de Sade; Salinger, J. D. Salinger, Jerome David Salinger; Sand, George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant; Sandburg, Carl Sandburg; Saroyan, William Saroyan; Sayers, Dorothy Sayers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dorothy Leigh Sayers; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller; Scott, Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott; Service, Robert William Service; Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw; Shelley, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley; Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway; Simenon, Georges Simenon, Georges Joseph Christian Simenon; Sinclair, Upton Sinclair, Upton Beall Sinclair; Singer, Isaac Bashevis Singer; Smollett, Tobias Smollett, Tobias George Smollett; Snow, C. P. Snow, Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of Leicester; Solzhenitsyn, Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn; Sontag, Susan Sontag; Spark, Muriel Spark, Dame Muriel Spark, Muriel Sarah Spark; Spillane, Mickey Spillane, Frank Morrison Spillane; Stael, Madame de Stael, Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein; Steele, Sir Richrd Steele; Stein, Gertrude Stein; Steinbeck, John Steinbeck, John Ernst Steinbeck; Stendhal, Marie Henri Beyle; Stephen, Sir Leslie Stephen; Sterne, Laurence Sterne; Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson; Stockton, Frank Stockton, Francis Richard Stockton; Stoker, Bram Stoker, Abraham Stoker; Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe; Strindberg, August Strindberg, Johan August Strindberg; Styron, William Styron; Sue, Eugene Sue; Symonds, John Addington Symonds; Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray; Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau; Tocqueville, Alexis de Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice de Tocqueville; Toklas, Alice B. Toklas; Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien; Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy; Trollope, Anthony Trollope; Turgenev, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev; Undset, Sigrid Undset; Untermeyer, Louis Untermeyer; Updike, John Updike, John Hoyer Updike; Van Doren, Carl Van Doren, Carl Clinton Van Doren; Vargas Llosa, Mario Vargas Llosa, Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa; Verne, Jules Verne; Vidal, Gore Vidal, Eugene Luther Vidal; Voltaire, Arouet, Francois-Marie Arouet; Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut; Wain, John Wain, John Barrington Wain; Walker, Alice Walker, Alice Malsenior Walker; Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace; Walpole, Horace Walpole, Horatio Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford; Walton, Izaak Walton; Ward, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Mary Augusta Arnold Ward; Warren, Robert Penn Warren; Waugh, Evelyn Waugh, Evelyn Arthur Saint John Waugh; Webb, Beatrice Webb, Martha Beatrice Potter Webb; Wells, H. G. Wells, Herbert George Wells; Welty, Eudora Welty; Werfel, Franz Werfel; West, Rebecca West, Dame Rebecca West, Cicily Isabel Fairfield; Wharton, Edith Wharton, Edith Newbold Jones Wharton; White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White; White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White; Wiesel, Elie Wiesel, Eliezer Wiesel; Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde; Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder; Wilson, Sir Angus Wilson, Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson; Wilson, Harriet Wilson; Wister, Owen Wister; Wodehouse, P. G. Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse; Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Clayton Wolfe; Wolfe, Tom Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.; Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Wood, Mrs. Henry Wood, Ellen Price Wood; Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf; Wouk, Herman Wouk; Wright, Richard Wright; Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine; Zangwill, Israel Zangwill; Zweig, Stefan Zweig |
- generator, source, author - someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
--2 is a kind of maker, shaper
--2 has particulars: coiner
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