writer, n.
(writers)
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(writers)
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writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
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author writer
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author writer
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derivationally related form
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
abstractor, abstracter
alliterator
authoress
biographer
coauthor, joint author
commentator, reviewer
compiler
contributor
cyberpunk
drafter
playwright, dramatist
essayist, litterateur
folk writer
framer
gagwriter, gagman, gagster
ghostwriter, ghost
Gothic romancer
hack, hack writer, literary hack
journalist
librettist
lyricist, lyrist
novelist
pamphleteer
paragrapher
poet
polemicist, polemist, polemic
rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser
scenarist
scriptwriter
space writer
speechwriter
tragedian
wordmonger
word-painter
wordsmith
instance hyponym
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
Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir
Beckett, Samuel Beckett
Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm
Belloc, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc
Bellow, Saul Bellow, Solomon Bellow
Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley
Benet, William Rose Benet
Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Boell, Heinrich Boell, Heinrich Theodor Boell
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
Butler, Samuel Butler
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, John Roderigo 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
Harris, Joel Harris, Joel Chandler 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 Allan Poe
Porter, William Sydney Porter, O. Henry
Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
Post, Emily Post, Emily Price Post
Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound
Powys, John Cowper Powys
Powys, Theodore Francis Powys
Powys, Llewelyn Powys
Pyle, Howard Pyle
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 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
Styron, William Styron
Sue, Eugene Sue
Symonds, John Addington Symonds
Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Tarbell, Ida Tarbell, Ida M. Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tarbell
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
a person who is able to write and has written something
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writer
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hyponym
diarist, diary keeper, journalist
scrawler, scribbler
speller, good speller, poor speller
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