writer

writer
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. author, journalist, reporter, newspaperman, magazine writer, contributor, poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, dramatist, playwright, librettist, scenario writer, scenarist, screenwriter, literary critic, correspondent, foreign correspondent, feature writer, copywriter, sports writer, fashion writer, advertisement writer, ad-man*, publicist, scripter, shorthand writer, stenographer, anecdotist, amanuensis, ghost writer, song writer, copyist, scribe, editor, contributing editor, war correspondent, special writer, freelance writer, representative, women's reporter, knight of the pen*, member of the Fourth Estate*, quill driver*, scribbler*, wordsmith*, pen pusher*, hack*, newshound*; see also author 2 , composer .
Major writers include --- British: Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Daniel Defoe, Lewis Carroll, Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell; American: James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Henry James, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Pearl Buck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, John Barth, William Styron; French: (François-Marie Arouet de) Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rosseau, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Georges Sand, Andre Malraux, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, Albert Camus; Italian: Niccolo Machiavelli, Giovanni Boccaccio, Alessandro Manzoni, Ignazio Silone; German: Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, Günter Grass; Russian: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Ivan Turgenev, Anton Chekhov; Spanish: Miguel de Cervantes, Jorge Luis Borges; Yiddish: I.B. Singer.
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
scribe, calligrapher, stenographer, author, wordsmith, poet, reporter, journalist, columnist, novelist, freelancer, hack, man of letters, playwright, screenwriter, ghostwriter. ''Apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.''—Hemingway. ''A frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.''—Rod Ser- ling.

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