Defenition of the word author

Defenition of the word author
- Person who wrote the content of a published novel, book or text.
- be the author of; "She authored this play"
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints"
- writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- be the author of

Synonyms for the word author

- biographer
- cause
- creator
- dramatist
- generator
- instigator
- novelist
- origin
- person behind
- person responsible
- source
- writer

Similar words in the author

- author
- author's
- authored
- authoring
- authoritarian
- authoritarianism
- authoritarianism's
- authoritarians
- authoritative
- authoritatively
- authoritativeness
- authoritativeness's
- authorities
- authority
- authority's
- authorization
- authorization's
- authorizations
- authorize
- authorized
- authorizes
- authorizing
- authors
- authorship
- authorship's

Hyponyms for the word author

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

Hypernyms for the word author

- communicator
- compose
- indite
- maker
- pen
- shaper
- write

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Words in other languages

English: Hello
Russian: Привет
France: Bonjour
Spanish: Hola
Dautch: Guten Aben