#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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