#professional_writer__writer__author writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
supertype: communicator a person who communicates with others
instance: Horatio_Alger Hans_Christian_Andersen Sherwood_Anderson Louis_Aragon Sholem_Asch Jane_Austen Imamu_Amiri_Baraka Samuel_Beckett Sir_Henry_Maxmilian_Beerbohm Ambrose_Gwinett_Bierce Jorge_Luis_Borges James_Boswell Ray_Douglas_Bradbury Charlotte_Bronte Emily_Jane_Bronte Anne_Bronte Charles_Farrar_Browne Pearl_Sydenstricker_Buck John_Bunyan Frances_Eliza_Hodgson_Burnett Edgar_Rice_Burroughs William_Burroughs James_Branch_Cabell Erskine_Preston_Caldwell Albert_Camus Lewis_Carroll Willa_Sibert_Cather Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra Raymond_Thornton_Chandler Francois_Rene_Chateaubriand Gilbert_Keith_Chesterton Dame_Agatha_Mary_Clarissa_Christie Sir_Winston_Leonard_Spenser_Churchill Samuel_Langhorne_Clemens Jean_Cocteau Sidonie_Gabrielle_Claudine_Colette William_Wilkie_Collins Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle Joseph_Conrad James_Fenimore_Cooper Stephen_Crane Edward_Estlin_Cummings Clarence_Shepard_Day_Jr. Daniel_Defoe Thomas_De_Quincey Charles_John_Huffam_Dickens John_Dos_Passos Feodor_Mikhailovich_Dostoyevsky Theodore_Herman_Albert_Dreiser Alexandre_Dumas Dame_Daphne_du_Maurier Lawrence_George_Durrell Ilya_Grigorievich_Ehrenberg George_Eliot Ralph_Waldo_Emerson James_Thomas_Farrell Edna_Ferber Henry_Fielding Francis_Scott_Key_Fitzgerald Gustave_Flaubert Ian_Lancaster_Fleming Ford_Hermann_Hueffer Cecil_Scott_Forester Anatole_France Benjamin_Franklin Carlos_Fuentes Emile_Gaboriau John_Galsworthy Erle_Stanley_Gardner Elizabeth_Cleghorn_Stevenson_Gaskell Theodor_Seuss_Geisel Jean_Genet Kahlil_Gibran Karl_Gjellerup Nikolai_Vasilievich_Gogol Sir_William_Gerald_Golding Oliver_Goldsmith Edmond_Louis_Antoine_Huot_de_Goncourt Jules_Alfred_Huot_de_Goncourt Nadine_Gordimer Maksim_Gorky Kenneth_Grahame Gunter_Wilhelm_Grass Robert_Ranke_Graves Henry_Graham_Greene Zane_Grey Jakob_Ludwig_Karl_Grimm Wilhelm_Karl_Grimm Hagard Elizabeth_Sanderson_Haldane Edward_Everett_Hale Alex_Haley Marguerite_Radclyffe_Hall Samuel_Dashiell_Hammett Knut_Hamsun Thomas_Hardy James_Thomas_Harris Bret_Harte Nathaniel_Hawthorne Ben_Hecht Robert_Anson_Heinlein Joseph_Heller Ernest_Hemingway Hermann_Hesse Paul_Johann_Ludwig_von_Heyse DuBois_Heyward Thomas_Wentworth_Storrow_Higginson Ernst_Theodor_Amadeus_Hoffmann Oliver_Wendell_Holmes William_Dean_Howells Edmond_Hoyle James_Langston_Hughes James_Henry_Leigh_Hunt Aldous_Leonard_Huxley John_Irving Washington_Irving Christopher_William_Bradshaw_Isherwood Helen_Maria_Fiske_Hunt_Jackson Jane_Jacobs William_Wymark_Jacobs Henry_James Johannes_Vilhelm_Jensen Samuel_Johnson James_Augustine_Aloysius_Joyce Franz_Kafka Helen_Adams_Keller Jean-Louis_Lebris_de_Kerouac Ken_Elton_Kesey Joseph_Rudyard_Kipling Arthur_Koestler Jean_de_La_Fontaine Ringgold_Wilmer_Lardner Francois_de_La_Rochefoucauld David_Herbert_Lawrence Thomas_Edward_Lawrence John_le_Carre Elmore_John_Leonard Mikhail_Yurievich_Lermontov Clive_Staples_Lewis Jack_London Clarence_Malcolm_Lowry John_Lyly Edward_George_Earle_Bulwer-Lytton Norman_Mailer Bernard_Malamud Sir_Thomas_Malory Andre_Malraux Thomas_Mann Kathleen_Mansfield_Beauchamp John_Philip_Marquand Ngaio_Marsh Alfred_Edward_Woodley_Mason William_Somerset_Maugham Henri_Rene_Albert_Guy_de_Maupassant Andre_Maurois Carson_Smith_McCullers Herbert_Marshall_McLuhan Herman_Melville Thomas_Merton Henry_Valentine_Miller Alan_Alexander_Milne Margaret_Munnerlyn_Mitchell Nancy_Freeman_Mitford Jessica_Lucy_Mitford Michel_Eyquem_Montaigne Lucy_Maud_Montgomery Sir_Thomas_More Toni_Morrison Hector_Hugh_Munro Dame_Jean_Iris_Murdoch Louis_Charles_Alfred_de_Musset Vladimir_vladimirovich_Nabokov Ogden_Nash Sir_Harold_George_Nicolson Benjamin_Franklin_Norris_Jr. Joyce_Carol_Oates Edna_O'Brien Mary_Flannery_O'Connor Liam_O'Flaherty John_Henry_O'Hara Philip_Michael_Ondaatje Baroness_Emmusca_Orczy George_Orwell Thomas_Nelson_Page Dorothy_Rothschild_Parker Boris_Leonidovich_Pasternak Alan_Stewart_Paton William_Sydney_Porter Ezra_Loomis_Pound Ayn_Rand Kenneth_Roberts Anna_Eleanor_Roosevelt Jean-Jacques_Rousseau Alfred_Damon_Runyon Ahmed_Salman_Rushdie Comte_Donatien_Alphonse_Francois_de_Sade Jerome_David_Salinger George_Sand Carl_Sandburg William_Saroyan Jean_Paul_Sartre Dorothy_Leigh_Sayers Johann_Christoph_Friedrich_von_Schiller Sir_Walter_Scott Robert_William_Service George_Bernard_Shaw Mary_Godwin_Wollstonecraft_Shelley Nevil_Shute_Norway Georges_Joseph_Christian_Simenon Upton_Beall_Sinclair Isaac_Bashevis_Singer Tobias_George_Smollett Baron_Snow_of_Leicester Alexander_Isayevich_Solzhenitsyn Susan_Sontag Muriel_Sarah_Spark Frank_Morrison_Spillane Madame_de_Stael Sir_Richrd_Steele Gertrude_Stein John_Ernst_Steinbeck Stendhal Sir_Leslie_Stephen Laurence_Sterne Robert_Louis_Balfour_Stevenson Francis_Richard_Stockton Abraham_Stoker Harriet_Elizabeth_Beecher_Stowe William_Styron Eugene_Sue John_Addington_Symonds William_Makepeace_Thackeray Henry_David_Thoreau Alexis_Charles_Henri_Maurice_de_Tocqueville Alice_B._Toklas John_Ronald_Reuel_Tolkien Count_Lev_Nikolayevitch_Tolstoy Anthony_Trollope Ivan_Sergeevich_Turgenev Louis_Untermeyer John_Hoyer_Updike Carl_Clinton_Van_Doren Mario_Vargas_Llosa Jules_Verne Eugene_Luther_Vidal Voltaire Kurt_Vonnegut John_Barrington_Wain Alice_Malsenior_Walker Richard_Horatio_Edgar_Wallace Horatio_Walpole Izaak_Walton Mary_Augusta_Arnold_Ward Robert_Penn_Warren Evelyn_Arthur_Saint_John_Waugh Martha_Beatrice_Potter_Webb Herbert_George_Wells Eudora_Welty Franz_Werfel Dame_Rebecca_West Elwyn_Brooks_White Patrick_Victor_Martindale_White Eliezer_Wiesel Oscar_Fingal_O'Flahertie_Wills_Wilde Thornton_Niven_Wilder Angus_Frank_Johnstone_Wilson Owen_Wister Pelham_Grenville_Wodehouse Thomas_Clayton_Wolfe Thomas_Kennerly_Wolfe_Jr. Mary_Wollstonecraft_Godwin Ellen_Price_Wood Adeline_Virginia_Stephen_Woolf Herman_Wouk Richard_Wright Willard_Huntington_Wright Israel_Zangwill Stefan_Zweig
subtype: abstractor__abstracter one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
subtype: alliterator a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration
subtype: authoress__authores a woman author
subtype: biographer someone who writes an account of another person's life
subtype: autobiographer someone who writes their own biography
instance: Plutarch Giles_Lytton_Strachey__Strachey__Lytton_Strachey
subtype: coauthor__joint_author__jointauthor a writer who collaborates with others in writing something
subtype: commentator a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
subtype: contributor a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book
subtype: drafter a writer of a draft
subtype: dramatist__playwright someone who writes plays
instance: Aeschylus Edward_Albee__Albee__Edward_Franklin_Albeen Maxwell_Anderson__Anderson Jean_Anouilh__Anouilh Aristophanes Sir_James_Matthew_Barrie__Barrie__James_Barrie__J._M._Barrie__James_Matthew_Barrie Samuel_Beckett__Beckett Bertolt_Brecht__Brecht Pedro_Calderon_de_la_Barca__Calderon__Calderon_de_la_Barca Miguel_de_Cervantes_Saavedra__Cervantes__Miguel_de_Cervantes__Cervantes_Saavedra Anton_Pavlovich_Chekhov__Chekhov__Chekov__Anton_Chekhov__Anton_Chekov__Anton_Pavlovich_Chekov Pierre_Corneille__Corneille Sir_Noel_Pierce_Coward__Coward__Noel_Coward Russel_Crouse__Crouse John_Dryden__Dryden Euripides Christopher_Fry__Fry Frederico_Garcia_Lorca__Garcia_Lorca__Lorca Hippolyte_Jean_Giraudoux__Giraudoux__Jean_Giraudoux Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe__Goethe Carlo_Goldoni__Goldoni Harley_Granville-Barker__Granville-Barker Moss_Hart__Hart Vaclav_Havel__Havel Christian_Friedrich_Hebbel__Hebbel__Friedrich_Hebbel Lillian_Hellman__Hellman Victor-Marie_Hugo__Hugo__Victor_Hugo Henrik_Ibsen__Ibsen William_Inge__Inge Eugene_Ionesco__Ionesco__ionesco Benjamin_Jonson__Jonson__Ben_Jonson George_Simon_Kaufman__Kaufman__George_S._Kaufman Bernd_Heinrich_Wilhelm_von_Kleist__Kleist__Heinrich_von_Kleist Gotthold_Ephraim_Lessing__Lessing Howard_Lindsay__Lindsay Clare_Booth_Luce__Luce Count_Maurice_Maeterlinck__Maeterlinck David_Mamet__Mamet Christopher_Marlowe__Marlowe John_Marstan__Marstan Menander Thomas_Middleton__Middleton Arthur_Miller__Miller Moliere__Jean-Baptiste_Poquelin Ferenc_Molnar__Molnar Sean_O'Casey__O'Casey__o'casey Clifford_Odets__Odets Eugene_Gladstone_O'Neill__O'Neill__Eugene_O'Neill John_James_Osborne__Osborne__John_Osborne Titus_Maccius_Plautus__Plautus Sir_Terence_Mervyn_Rattigan__Rattigan__Terence_Rattigan Elmer_Leopold_Rice__Rice__Elmer_Rice__Elmer_Reizenstein Esme_Stuart_Lennox_Robinson__Robinson__Lennox_Robinson Augustin_Eugene_Scribe__Scribe Lucius_Annaeus_Seneca__Seneca William_Shakespeare__Shakespeare__Shakspere__William_Shakspere__the_bard__thebard George_Bernard_Shaw__Shaw__G._B._Shaw Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan__Sheridan Robert_Emmet_Sherwood__Sherwood Marvin_Neil_Simon__Simon__Neil_Simon Sophocles Sir_Tom_Stoppard__Stoppard__Tom_Stoppard__Thomas_Straussler Johan_August_Strindberg__Strindberg__August_Strindberg Edmund_John_Millington_Synge__Synge__J._M._Synge__John_Millington_Synge Terence__Publius_Terentius_Afer Tirso_de_Molina__Gabriel_Tellez Peter_Alexander_Ustinov__Ustinov__Sir_Peter_Ustinov Lope_de_Vega__Vega Thornton_Niven_Wilder__Wilder__Thornton_Wilder Thomas_Lanier_Williams__Williams__Tennessee_Williams William_Wycherley__Wycherley William_Butler_Yeats__Yeats__W._B._Yeats
subtype: encyclopedist__compiler a person who compiles (or writes for) encyclopedias
subtype: essayist__litterateur a writer of literary works
instance: Charles_Lamb__Lamb__Elia
subtype: folk_writer a writer of folktales
subtype: folk_poet a folk writer who composes in verse
subtype: framer someone who writes a new law or plan; "the framers of the Constitution"
subtype: gagster__gagman__gagwriter someone who writes comic material for public performers
subtype: ghostwriter__ghost a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
subtype: Gothic_romancer__gothicromancer a writer of Gothic romances
subtype: literary_hack__hack__hack_writer a mediocre and disdained writer
subtype: journalist a writer for newspapers and magazines
subtype: broadcast_journalist__broadcastjournalist a journalist who broadcasts on radio or television
instance: Edward_Roscoe_Murrow__Murrow__Edward_R._Murrow Lowell_Jackson_Thomas__Thomas__Lowell_Thomas
subtype: columnist a journalist who writes editorials
subtype: gossip_columnist a journalist who writes a column of gossip about celebrities
subtype: newspaper_columnist__newspapercolumnist a columnist who writes for newspapers
subtype: newspaper_critic__newspapercritic a critic who writes a column for the newspapers
subtype: correspondent__newspaperman__newspaperwoman__newswriter__pressman a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
subtype: scribe__scribbler informal terms for journalists
subtype: sob_sister__sobsister a journalist who specializes in sentimental stories
subtype: sports_writer a journalist who writes about sports
instance: Alfred_Alistair_Cooke__Cooke__Alistair_Cooke Elizabeth_Merriwether_Gilmer__Gilmer__Dorothy_Dix Horace_Greeley__Greeley__greeley Edgar_Albert_Guest__Guest__Edgar_Guest Walter_Lippmann__Lippmann Henry_Louis_Mencken__Mencken__H._L._Mencken John_Reed__Reed Elizabeth_Cochrane_Seaman__Seaman__Elizabeth_Seaman__Nellie_Bly William_Lawrence_Shirer__Shirer Sir_Henry_Morton_Stanley__Stanley__Henry_M._Stanley__John_Rowlands Joseph_Lincoln_Steffens__Steffens__Lincoln_Steffens Isidor_Feinstein_Stone__Stone__I._F._Stone Theodore_Harold_White__White__T._H._White Alexander_Woollcott__Woollcott
subtype: librettist author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
instance: William_Schwenk_Gilbert__Gilbert__William_Gilbert__Sir_William_Gilbert
subtype: lyricist a person who writes the words for songs
instance: Ira_Gershwin__Gershwin Oscar_Hammerstein_II__Hammerstein__Oscar_Hammerstein Lorenz_Milton_Hart__Hart__Lorenz_Hart Alan_Jay_Lerner__Lerner Timothy_Miles_Bindon_Rice__Rice__Sir_Tim_Rice
subtype: novelist someone who writes novels
instance: James_Agee__Agee Louisa_May_Alcott__Alcott Honore_de_Balzac__Balzac__Honore_Balzac William_Cuthbert_Faulkner__Faulkner__William_Faulkner__Falkner__William_Falkner Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe__Goethe Victor-Marie_Hugo__Hugo__Victor_Hugo Harry_Sinclair_Lewis__Lewis__Sinclair_Lewis George_Meredith__Meredith Marcel_Proust__Proust Emile_Zola__Zola
subtype: pamphleteer a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)
instance: Thomas_Paine__Paine__Tom_Paine
subtype: paragrapher a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)
subtype: poet a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
subtype: bard.poet a lyric poet
subtype: elegist the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
subtype: poetess__poetes a woman poet
instance: Edna_Saint_Vincent_Millay__Millay__Edna_Millay Sappho
subtype: Poet_Laureate the poet officially appointed to the Royal Household in Great Britain; "the Poet Laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions"
subtype: sonneteer a poet who writes sonnets
instance: Alcaeus Guillaume_Apollinaire__Apollinaire__Wilhelm_Apollinaris_de_Kostrowitzki Matthew_Arnold__Arnold Jean_Arp__Arp__Hans_Arp Wystan_Hugh_Auden__Auden__W._H._Auden Charles_Pierre_Baudelaire__Baudelaire__Charles_Baudelaire William_Blake__Blake Giovanni_Boccaccio__Boccaccio Bertolt_Brecht__Brecht Rupert_Brooke__Brooke Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning__Browning Robert_Browning__Browning Robert_Burns__Burns Sixth_Baron_Byron_of_Rochdale__Byron__Lord_Byron__George_Gordon_Byron Pedro_Calderon_de_la_Barca__Calderon__Calderon_de_la_Barca Giosue_Carducci__Carducci Thomas_Carew__Carew Gaius_Valerius_Catullus__Catullus Geoffrey_Chaucer__Chaucer John_Anthony_Ciardi__Ciardi__John_Ciardi Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge__Coleridge Pierre_Corneille__Corneille Harold_Hart_Crane__Crane__Hart_Crane Cynewulf__Cynwulf Dante_Alighieri__Dante Walter_John_de_la_Mare__de_la_Mare__Walter_de_la_Mare Emily_Dickinson__Dickinson John_Donne__Donne John_Dryden__Dryden Thomas_Stearns_Eliot__Eliot__T._S._Eliot Edward_Fitzgerald__Fitzgerald Robert_Lee_Frost__Frost__Robert_Frost Frederico_Garcia_Lorca__Garcia_Lorca__Lorca William_Schwenk_Gilbert__Gilbert__William_Gilbert__Sir_William_Gilbert Allen_Ginsberg__Ginsberg Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe__Goethe Thomas_Gray__Gray Robert_Herrick__Herrick Hesiod Hugo_von_Hoffmannsthal__Hoffmannsthal James_Hogg__Hogg Homer Gerard_Manley_Hopkins__Hopkins Horace Alfred_Edward_Housman__Housman__A._E._Housman Edward_James_Hughes__Hughes__Ted_Hughes Victor-Marie_Hugo__Hugo__Victor_Hugo Henrik_Ibsen__Ibsen Randall_Jarrell__Jarrell John_Robinson_Jeffers__Jeffers__Robinson_Jeffers Juan_Ramon_Jimenez__Jimenez Benjamin_Jonson__Jonson__Ben_Jonson Erik_Axel_Karlfeldt__Karlfeldt John_Keats__Keats Francis_Scott_Key__Key Friedrich_Gottlieb_Klopstock__Klopstock Nicholas_Vachel_Lindsay__Lindsay__Vachel_Lindsay Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow__Longfellow Richard_Lovelace__Lovelace Amy_Lowell__Lowell Robert_Traill_Spence_Lowell_Jr.__Lowell__Robert_Lowell Titus_Lucretius_Carus__Lucretius Archibald_MacLeish__MacLeish Stephane_Mallarme__Mallarme Osip_Emilevich_Mandelstam__Mandelstam__Osip_Mandelstam__Mandelshtam Giambattista_Marini__Marini__Marino__Giambattista_Marino Christopher_Marlowe__Marlowe Jose_Julian_Marti__Marti Martial Andrew_Marvell__Marvell__marvell John_Edward_Masefield__Masefield__John_Masefield Edgar_Lee_Masters__Masters Vladimir_Vladimirovich_Mayakovski__Mayakovski George_Meredith__Meredith John_Milton__Milton Marianne_Craig_Moore__Moore__Marianne_Moore Thomas_Moore__Moore William_Morris__Morris Louis_Charles_Alfred_de_Musset__Musset__Alfred_de_Musset Alfred_Noyes__Noyes Omar_Khayyam Ovid__Publius_Ovidius_Naso Francis_Turner_Palgrave__Palgrave Petrarch__Petrarca__Francesco_Petrarca Pindar Ezra_Loomis_Pound__Pound__Ezra_Pound Aleksandr_Sergeyevich_Pushkin__Pushkin__Alexander_Pushkin James_Whitcomb_Riley__Riley Rainer_Maria_Rilke__Rilke Jean_Nicholas_Arthur_Rimbaud__Rimbaud__Arthur_Rimbaud Edwin_Arlington_Robinson__Robinson Alan_Seeger__Seeger Anne_Sexton__Sexton William_Shakespeare__Shakespeare__Shakspere__William_Shakspere__the_bard__thebard Percy_Bysshe_Shelley__Shelley Taras_Grigoryevich_Shevchenko__Shevchenko Sir_Philip_Sidney__Sidney Dame_Edith_Louisa_Sitwell__Sitwell__Dame_Edith_Sitwell Robert_Southey__Southey Sir_Stephen_Harold_Spender__Spender__Stephen_Spender Edmund_Spenser__Spenser Wallace_Stevens__Stevens Sir_John_Suckling__Suckling Algernon_Charles_Swinburne__Swinburne Arthur_Symons__Symons Torquato_Tasso__Tasso John_Orley_Allen_Tate__Tate__Allen_Tate Sara_Teasdale__Teasdale First_Baron_Tennyson__Tennyson__Alfred_Tennyson__Alfred_Lord_Tennyson Thespis Dylan_Marlais_Thomas__Thomas__Dylan_Thomas John_Trumbull__Trumbull Tristan_Tzara__Tzara__Samuel_Rosenstock Johann_Ludwig_Uhland__Uhland Paul_Verlaine__Verlaine Francois_Villon__Villon Virgil__Vergil__Publius_Vergilius_Maro Andrei_Voznesenski__Voznesenski Robert_Penn_Warren__Warren Isaac_Watts__Watts Phillis_Wheatley__Wheatley Walt_Whitman__Whitman John_Greenleaf_Whittier__Whittier William_Carlos_Williams__Williams William_Wordsworth__Wordsworth Sir_Thomas_Wyatt__Wyatt__Wyat__Sir_Thomas_Wyat Elinor_Morton_Hoyt_Wylie__Wylie William_Butler_Yeats__Yeats__W._B._Yeats Yevgeni_Aleksandrovich_Yevtushenko__Yevtushenko__Yevgeni_Yevtushenko Edward_Young__Young
subtype: rhymer__rhymester__versifier__poetizer a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)
subtype: scenarist a writer of screenplays
subtype: scriptwriter someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas
subtype: screenwriter__film_writer someone who writes screenplays
instance: George_Lucas__Lucas Dalton_Trumbo__Trumbo
subtype: space_writer__spacewriter a writer paid by the area of the copy
subtype: speechwriter a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver
subtype: tragedian a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
instance: Jean_Baptiste_Racine__Racine__Jean_Racine
subtype: wordmonger a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning
subtype: word-painter a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power
subtype: wordsmith a fluent and prolific writer
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