Entry Word: author

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a person who creates a written work <a brilliant novel by a first-time author>

Synonyms penman, writer

Related Words coauthor, ghostwriter, hack, scribbler; autobiographer, biographer; novelist; essayist, pamphleteer; dramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter; bard, poet, rhymer (or rimer); columnist, journalist, newspaperman, reporter, sportswriter

2 a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor <the author of modern genetics> — see father 2