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Another word for author

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author

n.

One who originates
inventor, originator, creator, architect, framer, artificer, discoverer, innovator, maker, planner, strategist, designer, projector, founder, father, organizer, prompter, producer, fabricator, artist, composer, begetter, prime mover, initiator, the brains*.
One who writes
writer, novelist, essayist, poet, short-story writer, dramatist, playwright, biographer, journalist, columnist, contributor, littÃ©rateur (French), belletrist, script writer, scenario writer, scenarist, screenwriter, librettist, scribe, penman, poetess, authoress, literary man, ghostwriter, encyclopedist, lexicographer, scholar, critic, annotator, hack, hack writer, scribbler, freelance writer, ghost*; see also writer.
Antonyms reader*, audience, publisher.

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Another word for author

noun

One that creates, founds, or originates:

architect, creator, entrepreneur, father, founder², inventor, maker, originator, parent, patriarch. See start

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It's a famous author named Miss Gladys Turnbull.
He is the author of some commendable verses.
He was the author of military reforms, which included the improvement of artillery.
Didn't Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, believe the Constitution should be rewritten every twenty years so that no one was governed by a document they had no say in creating?
But as she was not able to find her copy, and applications for the volume at bookstores in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Albany, and other places resulted only in failure, search was instituted for the author herself.

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