author
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- noun
- /ˈɔːθər/
- Yale Law School professor Owen M. Fiss, author of the landmark 1984 law review article.
- authors write
- book author
- author of the article
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Watch on YouTubeSo this is the author's note to Grave Peril.
- So this is the author's note to Grave Peril.
- We've already got some authors picked out for next year.
- He is a comedian and actor and now author Scott Size.
- Today's guest is the author of The Wolf of Wall Street.
- And for whatever reason, these single author blogs move a lot of books.
- Through their writings, these authors work to create racial literacy.
- This is by the same author who wrote Carval.
- And it's written by three authors, Mizner, Thorne and Wheeler.
- She's a best selling author of I think a dozen books now.
- I just like how this author writes young people.
Examples
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Contributing editor Bharti Kirchner, of Seattle, is the author of four novels and four cookbooks.
Academic text (2011) -
Randy Barnett, author of A Life for Liberty.
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A lady, a fine author, wrote a book.
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I would guess that this author is younger than I am.
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You may know her as the author of Love Your Life Not Theirs.
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What's the author's name again?
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I carved out a career as a horror author.
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Susan Shapiro, a Manhattan writing teacher, is the author of Only As Good As Your Word.
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You haven't seen a bestselling author before?
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She is a renowned author known for her captivating novels.
Synonyms
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A person who creates books, articles, or stories
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A person who writes or records information for other people
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A writer, often a journalist, who people think is not very skilled
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A woman who writes books or articles, now old-fashioned and sometimes offensive
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A person who writes for a living, for example a journalist or author
A person who writes books, articles, or reports
A person who writes books or poems and loves literature
A person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or books
Compounds
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A person who writes a book or article together with another person, sharing credit
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Author comes from the Latin auctor, from a verb that meant 'to make grow'. Think of an author as someone who makes an idea grow into a book or article, which is why an author is the person who writes such works.