1) The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is a profession (doing this for pay).
2) An author is someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
See also: Writer
Lists of specific types of authors:
- List of biographers
- List of children's literature authors
- List of crime writers
- List of dramatists
- List of essayists
- List of historians
- List of historical novelists
- List of horror fiction authors
- List of humorists
- List of journalists
- List of military writers
- List of novelists by country (includes other types of authors).
- List of novelists by genre
- Lists of poets
- by name
- by language: Albanian, Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Welsh
- List of political authors
- List of romantic novelists
- List of science fiction authors
- List of screenwriters
- List of short story authors
- List of surrealist poets
- List of fantasy authors
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