Synonyms of authors

authors 1 of 2

noun

plural of author

1

as in writers

a person who creates a written work

a brilliant novel by a first-time author

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writers
• novelists
• biographers
• poets
• storytellers
• men of letters
• litterateurs
• pens
• women of letters
• penmen
• bloggers
• screenwriters
• scriveners
• coauthors
• playwrights
• wordsmiths
• dramatists
• stylists
• scribes
• columnists
• reporters
• journalists
• cowriters
• ghostwriters
• autobiographers
• scribblers
• essayists
• memoirists
• hagiographers
• fictioneers
• fictionists
• auteurs
• memorialists
• belletrists
• scriptwriters
• fabulists
• pamphleteers
• scenarists
• hacks
• romancers
• bards
• sportswriters
• newspapermen
• satirists
• versifiers
• hatchet men
• wordmongers
• rhymers
• coscenarists
• paragraphers
• prosers
• prosaists
• prosateurs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthors

2

as in creators

a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor

the author of modern genetics

Synonyms & Similar Words

• creators
• founders
• fathers
• inventors
• makers
• pioneers
• generators
• originators
• initiators
• designers
• founding fathers
• begetters
• innovators
• establishers
• researchers
• sires
• inaugurators
• instituters
• developers
• builders
• producers
• cofounders
• formulators
• promoters
• organizers
• introducers
• contrivers
• devisers
• spawners
• cocreators
• inspirers
• conceivers
• encouragers
• galvanizers
• researchists
• inspirations

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• students
• pupils
• followers
• supporters
• disciples

authors

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of author

as in writes

to compose and set down on paper the words of

authored a new biography of Thomas Jefferson

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writes
• pens
• types
• composes
• scribbles
• letters
• records
• crafts
• rewrites
• prints
• scratches (out)
• words
• drafts
• recasts
• signs
• casts
• formulates
• phrases
• revises
• pencils (in)
• redrafts
• autographs
• takes down
• transcribes
• prepares
• draws up
• frames
• typewrites
• registers
• couches
• expresses
• puts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of authors

Noun

To the authors, a new constitutional government that controlled both the impulses of the masses and the abuses of their leaders would serve as the means through which the new United States government could accomplish this task. — Donovan Fifield, The Conversation, 16 July 2026

The package was full of new-age comics by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Millar and Ed Brubaker, all powerhouse authors of the 2000s. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 16 July 2026

Perhaps that’s because the book is a direct result of the authors’ own friendship. — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 15 July 2026

Launching later this summer, the roaming, concierge-style lending library delivers curated reads directly to guests poolside, with selections from local Bookstore1 that include BookTok favorites, new releases, and works by Florida authors. — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 15 July 2026

The 22 books, by authors such as Walt Whitman, Jack London, and Henry David Thoreau, were all recovered. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 15 July 2026

Leeper says the authors should be commended for those precautions, but the possibility of contamination can’t be ruled out completely. — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 15 July 2026

Rather than uniting America’s founders, slavery divided the authors of both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as a moral issue. — Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 14 July 2026

But Nunez, as befits her subject matter, is high on today’s crop of young authors. — Literary Hub, 14 July 2026

Verb

In addition, Roberts often authors the opinions in the biggest cases – and there are some big ones left. — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 29 June 2026

Clare McAndrew, who authors the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report, told The Observer that demand for his paintings had surged more than 1,200 percent in the forty-eight hours following his passing. — News Desk, Artforum, 22 June 2026

Perhaps if the team authors a more precipitous decline and those gaps grow, there will be a more serious conversation about conducting a selloff. — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 25 May 2026

While not all of the slowdown in box production can be attributable to falling demand for goods, the slump is present in other areas of the freight economy, said Adam Josephson, a longtime paper and packaging sell-side analyst who now authors an economics newsletter. — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025