author
English Thesaurus
1. someone who originates or causes or initiates something (noun.person)
hyponym | : | coiner, |
definition | : | someone who is a source of new words or new expressions (noun.person) |
2. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) (noun.person)
hypernym | : | communicator, |
definition | : | a person who communicates with others (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | abstracter, abstractor, |
definition | : | one who makes abstracts or summarizes information (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | alliterator, |
definition | : | a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | authoress, |
definition | : | a woman author (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | biographer, |
definition | : | someone who writes an account of a person's life (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | coauthor, joint author, |
definition | : | a writer who collaborates with others in writing something (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | commentator, reviewer, |
definition | : | a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | compiler, |
definition | : | a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | contributor, |
definition | : | a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | cyberpunk, |
definition | : | a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | drafter, |
definition | : | a writer of a draft (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | dramatist, playwright, |
definition | : | someone who writes plays (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | essayist, litterateur, |
definition | : | a writer of literary works (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | folk writer, |
definition | : | a writer of folktales (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | framer, |
definition | : | someone who writes a new law or plan (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | ghost, ghostwriter, |
definition | : | a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | gothic romancer, |
definition | : | a writer of Gothic romances (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | hack, hack writer, literary hack, |
definition | : | a mediocre and disdained writer (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | journalist, |
definition | : | a writer for newspapers and magazines (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | librettist, |
definition | : | author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | novelist, |
definition | : | one who writes novels (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | pamphleteer, |
definition | : | a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | paragrapher, |
definition | : | a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | poet, |
definition | : | a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | polemic, polemicist, polemist, |
definition | : | a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology) (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | scenarist, |
definition | : | a writer of screenplays (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | scriptwriter, |
definition | : | someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | space writer, |
definition | : | a writer paid by the area of the copy (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | speechwriter, |
definition | : | a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | tragedian, |
definition | : | a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | wordmonger, |
definition | : | a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | word-painter, |
definition | : | a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power (noun.person) |
hyponym | : | wordsmith, |
definition | : | a fluent and prolific writer (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aiken, conrad aiken, conrad potter aiken, |
definition | : | United States writer (1889-1973) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alger, horatio alger, |
definition | : | United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | algren, nelson algren, |
definition | : | United States writer (1909-1981) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | andersen, hans christian andersen, |
definition | : | a Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anderson, sherwood anderson, |
definition | : | United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aragon, louis aragon, |
definition | : | French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | asch, shalom asch, sholem asch, sholom asch, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | asimov, isaac asimov, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | auchincloss, louis auchincloss, louis stanton auchincloss, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1917) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | austen, jane austen, |
definition | : | English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle-class families (1775-1817) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baldwin, james arthur baldwin, james baldwin, |
definition | : | United States author who was an outspoken critic of racism (1924-1987) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baraka, imamu amiri baraka, leroi jones, |
definition | : | United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | barth, john barth, john simmons barth, |
definition | : | United States novelist (born in 1930) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | barthelme, donald barthelme, |
definition | : | United States author of sometimes surrealistic stories (1931-1989) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baum, frank baum, lyman frank brown, |
definition | : | United States writer of children's books (1856-1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beauvoir, simone de beauvoir, |
definition | : | French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beckett, samuel beckett, |
definition | : | a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beerbohm, max beerbohm, sir henry maxmilian beerbohm, |
definition | : | English writer and caricaturist (1872-1956) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | belloc, hilaire belloc, joseph hilaire peter belloc, |
definition | : | English author (born in France) remembered especially for his verse for children (1870-1953) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bellow, saul bellow, solomon bellow, |
definition | : | United States author (born in Canada) whose novels influenced American literature after World War II (1915-2005) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | benchley, robert benchley, robert charles benchley, |
definition | : | United States humorist (1889-1945) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | benet, william rose benet, |
definition | : | United States writer; brother of Stephen Vincent Benet (1886-1950) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ambrose bierce, ambrose gwinett bierce, bierce, |
definition | : | United States writer of caustic wit (1842-1914) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | boell, heinrich boell, heinrich theodor boell, |
definition | : | German novelist and writer of short stories (1917-1985) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arna wendell bontemps, bontemps, |
definition | : | United States writer (1902-1973) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | borges, jorge borges, jorge luis borges, |
definition | : | Argentinian writer remembered for his short stories (1899-1986) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | boswell, james boswell, |
definition | : | Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bradbury, ray bradbury, ray douglas bradbury, |
definition | : | United States writer of science fiction (born 1920) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bronte, charlotte bronte, |
definition | : | English novelist; oldest of three Bronte sisters (1816-1855) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bronte, currer bell, emily bronte, emily jane bronte, |
definition | : | English novelist; one of three Bronte sisters (1818-1848) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anne bronte, bronte, |
definition | : | English novelist; youngest of three Bronte sisters (1820-1849) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | artemus ward, browne, charles farrar browne, |
definition | : | United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | buck, pearl buck, pearl sydenstricker buck, |
definition | : | United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bunyan, john bunyan, |
definition | : | English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anthony burgess, burgess, |
definition | : | English writer of satirical novels (1917-1993) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | burnett, frances eliza hodgson burnett, frances hodgson burnett, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in England) remembered for her novels for children (1849-1924) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | burroughs, edgar rice burroughs, |
definition | : | United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | burroughs, william burroughs, william s. burroughs, william seward burroughs, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | butler, samuel butler, |
definition | : | English novelist who described a fictitious land he called Erewhon (1835-1902) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cabell, james branch cabell, |
definition | : | United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | caldwell, erskine caldwell, erskine preston caldwell, |
definition | : | United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | calvino, italo calvino, |
definition | : | Italian writer of novels and short stories (born in Cuba) (1923-1987) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | albert camus, camus, |
definition | : | French writer who portrayed the human condition as isolated in an absurd world (1913-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | canetti, elias canetti, |
definition | : | English writer born in Germany (1905-1994) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | capek, karel capek, |
definition | : | Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | carroll, charles dodgson, charles lutwidge dodgson, dodgson, lewis carroll, reverend dodgson, |
definition | : | English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cather, willa cather, willa sibert cather, |
definition | : | United States writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cervantes, cervantes saavedra, miguel de cervantes, miguel de cervantes saavedra, |
definition | : | Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | chandler, raymond chandler, raymond thornton chandler, |
definition | : | United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | chateaubriand, francois rene chateaubriand, vicomte de chateaubriand, |
definition | : | French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cheever, john cheever, |
definition | : | United States writer of novels and short stories (1912-1982) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | chesterton, g. k. chesterton, gilbert keith chesterton, |
definition | : | conservative English writer of the Roman Catholic persuasion; in addition to volumes of criticism and polemics he wrote detective novels featuring Father Brown (1874-1936) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | chopin, kate chopin, kate o'flaherty chopin, |
definition | : | United States writer who described Creole life in Louisiana (1851-1904) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | agatha christie, christie, dame agatha mary clarissa christie, |
definition | : | prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | churchill, sir winston leonard spenser churchill, winston churchill, winston s. churchill, |
definition | : | British statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | clemens, mark twain, samuel langhorne clemens, |
definition | : | United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cocteau, jean cocteau, |
definition | : | French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | colette, sidonie-gabrielle claudine colette, sidonie-gabrielle colette, |
definition | : | French writer of novels about women (1873-1954) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | collins, wilkie collins, william wilkie collins, |
definition | : | English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | a. conan doyle, arthur conan doyle, conan doyle, sir arthur conan doyle, |
definition | : | British author who created Sherlock Holmes (1859-1930) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | conrad, joseph conrad, teodor josef konrad korzeniowski, |
definition | : | English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cooper, james fenimore cooper, |
definition | : | United States novelist noted for his stories of American Indians and the frontier life (1789-1851) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | crane, stephen crane, |
definition | : | United States writer (1871-1900) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cummings, e. e. cummings, edward estlin cummings, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for his typographically eccentric poetry (1894-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | clarence day, clarence shepard day jr., day, |
definition | : | United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | daniel defoe, defoe, |
definition | : | English writer remembered particularly for his novel about Robinson Crusoe (1660-1731) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | de quincey, thomas de quincey, |
definition | : | English writer who described the psychological effects of addiction to opium (1785-1859) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | charles dickens, charles john huffam dickens, dickens, |
definition | : | English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | didion, joan didion, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1934) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baroness karen blixen, blixen, dinesen, isak dinesen, karen blixen, |
definition | : | Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | doctorow, e. l. doctorow, edgard lawrence doctorow, |
definition | : | United States novelist (born in 1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dos passos, john dos passos, john roderigo dos passos, |
definition | : | United States novelist remembered for his portrayal of life in the United States (1896-1970) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dostoevski, dostoevsky, dostoyevsky, feodor dostoevski, feodor dostoevsky, feodor dostoyevsky, feodor mikhailovich dostoevski, feodor mikhailovich dostoevsky, feodor mikhailovich dostoyevsky, fyodor dostoevski, fyodor dostoevsky, fyodor dostoyevsky, fyodor mikhailovi, |
definition | : | Russian novelist who wrote of human suffering with humor and psychological insight (1821-1881) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dreiser, theodore dreiser, theodore herman albert dreiser, |
definition | : | United States novelist (1871-1945) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alexandre dumas, dumas, |
definition | : | French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | du maurier, george du maurier, george louis palmella busson du maurier, |
definition | : | English writer and illustrator; grandfather of Daphne du Maurier (1834-1896) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dame daphne du maurier, daphne du maurier, du maurier, |
definition | : | English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | durrell, lawrence durrell, lawrence george durrell, |
definition | : | English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ehrenberg, ilya ehrenberg, ilya grigorievich ehrenberg, |
definition | : | Russian novelist (1891-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eliot, george eliot, mary ann evans, |
definition | : | British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ellison, ralph ellison, ralph waldo ellison, |
definition | : | United States novelist who wrote about a young Black man and his struggles in American society (1914-1994) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | emerson, ralph waldo emerson, |
definition | : | United States writer and leading exponent of transcendentalism (1803-1882) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | farrell, james thomas farrell, |
definition | : | United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edna ferber, ferber, |
definition | : | United States novelist; author of several popular novels (1887-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | fielding, henry fielding, |
definition | : | English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | f. scott fitzgerald, fitzgerald, francis scott key fitzgerald, |
definition | : | United States author whose novels characterized the Jazz Age in the United States (1896-1940) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | flaubert, gustave flaubert, |
definition | : | French writer of novels and short stories (1821-1880) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | fleming, ian fleming, ian lancaster fleming, |
definition | : | British writer famous for writing spy novels about secret agent James Bond (1908-1964) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ford, ford hermann hueffer, ford madox ford, |
definition | : | English writer and editor (1873-1939) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | c. s. forester, cecil scott forester, forester, |
definition | : | English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anatole france, france, jacques anatole francois thibault, |
definition | : | French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | benjamin franklin, franklin, |
definition | : | printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | carlos fuentes, fuentes, |
definition | : | Mexican novelist (born in 1928) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | emile gaboriau, gaboriau, |
definition | : | French writer considered by some to be a founder of the detective novel (1832-1873) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | galsworthy, john galsworthy, |
definition | : | English novelist (1867-1933) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | erle stanley gardner, gardner, |
definition | : | writer of detective novels featuring Perry Mason (1889-1970) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | elizabeth cleghorn stevenson gaskell, elizabeth gaskell, gaskell, |
definition | : | English writer who is remembered for her biography of Charlotte Bronte (1810-1865) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dr. seuss, geisel, theodor seuss geisel, |
definition | : | United States writer of children's books (1904-1991) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gibran, kahlil gibran, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Lebanon) (1883-1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | andre gide, andre paul guillaume gide, gide, |
definition | : | French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gjellerup, karl gjellerup, |
definition | : | Danish novelist (1857-1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gogol, nikolai vasilievich gogol, |
definition | : | Russian writer who introduced realism to Russian literature (1809-1852) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | golding, sir william gerald golding, william golding, |
definition | : | English novelist (1911-1993) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | goldsmith, oliver goldsmith, |
definition | : | Irish writer of novels and poetry and plays and essays (1728-1774) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gombrowicz, witold gombrowicz, |
definition | : | Polish author (1904-1969) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edmond de goncourt, edmond louis antoine huot de goncourt, goncourt, |
definition | : | French writer who collaborated with his brother Jules de Goncourt on many books and who in his will established the Prix Goncourt (1822-1896) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | goncourt, jules alfred huot de goncourt, jules de goncourt, |
definition | : | French writer who collaborated with his brother Edmond de Goncourt on many books (1830-1870) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gordimer, nadine gordimer, |
definition | : | South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aleksey maksimovich peshkov, aleksey maximovich peshkov, gorki, gorky, maksim gorky, maxim gorki, |
definition | : | Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | grahame, kenneth grahame, |
definition | : | English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | grass, gunter grass, gunter wilhelm grass, |
definition | : | German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | graves, robert graves, robert ranke graves, |
definition | : | English writer known for his interest in mythology and in the classics (1895-1985) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | graham greene, greene, henry graham greene, |
definition | : | English novelist and Catholic (1904-1991) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | grimm, jakob grimm, jakob ludwig karl grimm, |
definition | : | the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | grimm, wilhelm grimm, wilhelm karl grimm, |
definition | : | the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | haggard, rider haggard, sir henry rider haggard, |
definition | : | British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | elizabeth haldane, elizabeth sanderson haldane, haldane, |
definition | : | Scottish writer and sister of Richard Haldane and John Haldane (1862-1937) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edward everett hale, hale, |
definition | : | prolific United States writer (1822-1909) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alex haley, haley, |
definition | : | United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hall, marguerite radclyffe hall, radclyffe hall, |
definition | : | English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dashiell hammett, hammett, samuel dashiell hammett, |
definition | : | United States writer of hard-boiled detective fiction (1894-1961) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hamsun, knut hamsun, knut pedersen, |
definition | : | Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hardy, thomas hardy, |
definition | : | English novelist and poet (1840-1928) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | frank harris, harris, james thomas harris, |
definition | : | Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harris, joel chandler harris, joel harris, |
definition | : | United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bret harte, harte, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for his stories about life during the California gold rush (1836-1902) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hasek, jaroslav hasek, |
definition | : | Czech author of novels and short stories (1883-1923) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hawthorne, nathaniel hawthorne, |
definition | : | United States writer of novels and short stories mostly on moral themes (1804-1864) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | heinlein, robert a. heinlein, robert anson heinlein, |
definition | : | United States writer of science fiction (1907-1988) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | heller, joseph heller, |
definition | : | United States novelist whose best known work was a black comedy inspired by his experiences in the Air Force during World War II (1923-1999) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ernest hemingway, hemingway, |
definition | : | an American writer of fiction who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 (1899-1961) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hermann hesse, hesse, |
definition | : | Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | heyse, paul heyse, paul johann ludwig von heyse, |
definition | : | German writer (1830-1914) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dubois heyward, edwin dubois hayward, heyward, |
definition | : | United States writer (1885-1940) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | higginson, thomas higginson, thomas wentworth storrow higginson, |
definition | : | United States writer and soldier who led the first Black regiment in the Union Army (1823-1911) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | e. t. a. hoffmann, ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann, ernst theodor wilhelm hoffmann, hoffmann, |
definition | : | German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | holmes, oliver wendell holmes, |
definition | : | United States writer of humorous essays (1809-1894) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | howells, william dean howells, |
definition | : | United States writer and editor (1837-1920) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edmond hoyle, hoyle, |
definition | : | English writer on card games (1672-1769) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hubbard, l. ron hubbard, |
definition | : | a United States writer of science fiction and founder of Scientology (1911-1986) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hughes, james langston hughes, langston hughes, |
definition | : | United States writer (1902-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | hunt, james henry leigh hunt, leigh hunt, |
definition | : | British writer who defended the Romanticism of Keats and Shelley (1784-1859) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aldous huxley, aldous leonard huxley, huxley, |
definition | : | English writer; grandson of Thomas Huxley who is remembered mainly for his depiction of a scientifically controlled utopia (1894-1963) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | irving, john irving, |
definition | : | United States writer of darkly humorous novels (born in 1942) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | irving, washington irving, |
definition | : | United States writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | christopher isherwood, christopher william bradshaw isherwood, isherwood, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | helen hunt jackson, helen maria fiske hunt jackson, jackson, |
definition | : | United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jacobs, jane jacobs, |
definition | : | United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jacobs, w. w. jacobs, william wymark jacobs, |
definition | : | English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | henry james, james, |
definition | : | writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jensen, johannes vilhelm jensen, |
definition | : | modernistic Danish writer (1873-1950) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dr. johnson, johnson, samuel johnson, |
definition | : | English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | erica jong, jong, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1942) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | james augustine aloysius joyce, james joyce, joyce, |
definition | : | influential Irish writer noted for his many innovations (such as stream of consciousness writing) (1882-1941) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | franz kafka, kafka, |
definition | : | Czech novelist who wrote in German about a nightmarish world of isolated and troubled individuals (1883-1924) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | helen adams keller, helen keller, keller, |
definition | : | United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jack kerouac, jean-louis lebris de kerouac, kerouac, |
definition | : | United States writer who was a leading figure of the beat generation (1922-1969) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ken elton kesey, ken kesey, kesey, |
definition | : | United States writer whose best-known novel was based on his experiences as an attendant in a mental hospital (1935-2001) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | joseph rudyard kipling, kipling, rudyard kipling, |
definition | : | English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arthur koestler, koestler, |
definition | : | British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jean de la fontaine, la fontaine, |
definition | : | French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lardner, ring lardner, ringgold wilmer lardner, |
definition | : | United States humorist and writer of satirical short stories (1885-1933) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | francois de la rochefoucauld, la rochefoucauld, |
definition | : | French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | d. h. lawrence, david herbert lawrence, lawrence, |
definition | : | English novelist and poet and essayist whose work condemned industrial society and explored sexual relationships (1885-1930) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lawrence, lawrence of arabia, t. e. lawrence, thomas edward lawrence, |
definition | : | Welsh soldier who from 1916 to 1918 organized the Arab revolt against the Turks; he later wrote an account of his adventures (1888-1935) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | david john moore cornwell, john le carre, le carre, |
definition | : | English writer of novels of espionage (born in 1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dutch leonard, elmore john leonard, elmore leonard, leonard, |
definition | : | United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | lermontov, mikhail yurievich lermontov, |
definition | : | Russian writer (1814-1841) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | doris lessing, doris may lessing, lessing, |
definition | : | English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | c. s. lewis, clive staples lewis, lewis, |
definition | : | English critic and novelist; author of theological works and of books for children (1898-1963) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harry sinclair lewis, lewis, sinclair lewis, |
definition | : | United States novelist who satirized middle-class America in his novel Main Street (1885-1951) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jack london, john griffith chaney, london, |
definition | : | United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | clarence malcolm lowry, lowry, malcolm lowry, |
definition | : | English novelist (1909-1957) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bulwer-lytton, edward george earle bulwer-lytton, first baron lytton, lytton, |
definition | : | English writer of historical romances (1803-1873) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mailer, norman mailer, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1923) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | bernard malamud, malamud, |
definition | : | United States writer (1914-1986) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | malory, sir thomas malory, thomas malory, |
definition | : | English writer who published a translation of romances about King Arthur taken from French and other sources (died in 1471) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | andre malraux, malraux, |
definition | : | French novelist (1901-1976) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mann, thomas mann, |
definition | : | German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | katherine mansfield, kathleen mansfield beauchamp, mansfield, |
definition | : | New Zealand writer of short stories (1888-1923) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alessandro manzoni, manzoni, |
definition | : | Italian novelist and poet (1785-1873) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john marquand, john philip marquand, marquand, |
definition | : | United States writer who created the Japanese detective Mr. Moto and wrote other novels as well (1893-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | marsh, ngaio marsh, |
definition | : | New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | a. e. w. mason, alfred edward woodley mason, mason, |
definition | : | English writer (1865-1948) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | maugham, somerset maugham, w. somerset maugham, william somerset maugham, |
definition | : | English writer (born in France) of novels and short stories (1874-1965) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | guy de maupassant, henri rene albert guy de maupassant, maupassant, |
definition | : | French writer noted especially for his short stories (1850-1893) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | francois charles mauriac, francois mauriac, mauriac, |
definition | : | French novelist who wrote about the conflict between desire and religious belief (1885-1970) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | andre maurois, emile herzog, maurois, |
definition | : | French writer best known for his biographies (1885-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mary mccarthy, mary therese mccarthy, mccarthy, |
definition | : | United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | carson mccullers, carson smith mccullers, mccullers, |
definition | : | United States novelist (1917-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | herbert marshall mcluhan, marshall mcluhan, mcluhan, |
definition | : | Canadian writer noted for his analyses of the mass media (1911-1980) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | herman melville, melville, |
definition | : | United States writer of novels and short stories (1819-1891) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | merton, thomas merton, |
definition | : | United States religious and writer (1915-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | james albert michener, james michener, michener, |
definition | : | United States writer of historical novels (1907-1997) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | henry miller, henry valentine miller, miller, |
definition | : | United States novelist whose novels were originally banned as pornographic (1891-1980) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | a. a. milne, alan alexander milne, milne, |
definition | : | English writer of stories for children (1882-1956) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | margaret mitchell, margaret munnerlyn mitchell, mitchell, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for her novel about the South during the American Civil War (1900-1949) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mitford, nancy freeman mitford, nancy mitford, |
definition | : | English writer of comic novels (1904-1973) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jessica lucy mitford, jessica mitford, mitford, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in England) who wrote on American culture (1917-1996) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | michel eyquem montaigne, michel montaigne, montaigne, |
definition | : | French writer regarded as the originator of the modern essay (1533-1592) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | l. m. montgomery, lucy maud montgomery, montgomery, |
definition | : | Canadian novelist (1874-1942) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | more, sir thomas more, thomas more, |
definition | : | English statesman who opposed Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of Utopia, the ideal state (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | chloe anthony wofford, morrison, toni morrison, |
definition | : | United States writer whose novels describe the lives of African-Americans (born in 1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | h. h. munro, hector hugh munro, munro, saki, |
definition | : | British writer of short stories (1870-1916) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dame jean iris murdoch, iris murdoch, murdoch, |
definition | : | British writer (born in Ireland) known primarily for her novels (1919-1999) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alfred de musset, louis charles alfred de musset, musset, |
definition | : | French poet and writer (1810-1857) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | nabokov, vladimir nabokov, vladimir vladimirovich nabokov, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Russia) (1899-1977) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | nash, ogden nash, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for his droll epigrams (1902-1971) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harold nicolson, nicolson, sir harold george nicolson, |
definition | : | English diplomat and author (1886-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | benjamin franklin norris jr., frank norris, norris, |
definition | : | United States writer (1870-1902) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | joyce carol oates, oates, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1938) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edna o'brien, o'brien, |
definition | : | Irish writer (born in 1932) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | flannery o'connor, mary flannery o'connor, o'connor, |
definition | : | United States writer (1925-1964) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | liam o'flaherty, o'flaherty, |
definition | : | Irish writer of short stories (1896-1984) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john henry o'hara, o'hara, |
definition | : | United States writer (1905-1970) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | michael ondaatje, ondaatje, philip michael ondaatje, |
definition | : | Canadian writer (born in Sri Lanka in 1943) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baroness emmusca orczy, orczy, |
definition | : | British writer (born in Hungary) (1865-1947) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eric arthur blair, eric blair, george orwell, orwell, |
definition | : | imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | page, thomas nelson page, |
definition | : | United States diplomat and writer about the Old South (1853-1922) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dorothy parker, dorothy rothschild parker, parker, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | boris leonidovich pasternak, boris pasternak, pasternak, |
definition | : | Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published abroad (1890-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alan paton, alan stewart paton, paton, |
definition | : | South African writer (1903-1988) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | percy, walker percy, |
definition | : | United States writer whose novels explored human alienation (1916-1990) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gaius petronius, petronius, petronius arbiter, |
definition | : | Roman satirist (died in 66) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | plath, sylvia plath, |
definition | : | United States writer and poet (1932-1963) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gaius plinius secundus, pliny, pliny the elder, |
definition | : | Roman author of an encyclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gaius plinius caecilius secundus, pliny, pliny the younger, |
definition | : | Roman writer and nephew of Pliny the Elder; author of books of letters that commented on affairs of the day (62-113) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edgar allan poe, poe, |
definition | : | United States writer and poet (1809-1849) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | o. henry, porter, william sydney porter, |
definition | : | United States writer of short stories whose pen name was O. Henry (1862-1910) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | katherine anne porter, porter, |
definition | : | United States writer of novels and short stories (1890-1980) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | emily post, emily price post, post, |
definition | : | United States female author who wrote a book and a syndicated newspaper column on etiquette (1872-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ezra loomis pound, ezra pound, pound, |
definition | : | United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john cowper powys, powys, |
definition | : | British writer of novels about nature; one of three literary brothers (1872-1963) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | powys, theodore francis powys, |
definition | : | British writer of allegorical novels; one of three literary brothers (1875-1953) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | llewelyn powys, powys, |
definition | : | British writer of essays; one of three literary brothers (1884-1939) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | howard pyle, pyle, |
definition | : | United States writer and illustrator of children's books (1853-1911) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | pynchon, thomas pynchon, |
definition | : | United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mordecai richler, richler, |
definition | : | Canadian novelist (born in 1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | kenneth roberts, roberts, |
definition | : | United States writer remembered for his historical novels about colonial America (1885-1957) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anna eleanor roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, roosevelt, |
definition | : | wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | philip milton roth, philip roth, roth, |
definition | : | United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jean-jacques rousseau, rousseau, |
definition | : | French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alfred damon runyon, damon runyon, runyon, |
definition | : | United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ahmed salman rushdie, rushdie, salman rushdie, |
definition | : | British writer of novels who was born in India; one of his novels is regarded as blasphemous by Muslims and a fatwa was issued condemning him to death (born in 1947) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | a.e., george william russell, russell, |
definition | : | Irish writer whose pen name was A.E. (1867-1935) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | comte donatien alphonse francois de sade, de sade, marquis de sade, sade, |
definition | : | French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | j. d. salinger, jerome david salinger, salinger, |
definition | : | United States writer (born 1919) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | amandine aurore lucie dupin, baroness dudevant, george sand, sand, |
definition | : | French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | carl sandburg, sandburg, |
definition | : | United States writer remembered for his poetry in free verse and his six volume biography of Abraham Lincoln (1878-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | saroyan, william saroyan, |
definition | : | United States writer of plays and short stories (1908-1981) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dorothy l. sayers, dorothy leigh sayers, dorothy sayers, sayers, |
definition | : | English writer of detective fiction (1893-1957) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | johann christoph friedrich von schiller, schiller, |
definition | : | German romantic writer (1759-1805) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | scott, sir walter scott, walter scott, |
definition | : | British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | robert william service, service, |
definition | : | Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | g. b. shaw, george bernard shaw, shaw, |
definition | : | British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mary godwin wollstonecraft shelley, mary shelley, mary wollstonecraft shelley, shelley, |
definition | : | English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | nevil shute, nevil shute norway, shute, |
definition | : | English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | georges joseph christian simenon, georges simenon, simenon, |
definition | : | French writer (born in Belgium) best known for his detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret (1903-1989) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sinclair, upton beall sinclair, upton sinclair, |
definition | : | United States writer whose novels argued for social reform (1878-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | isaac bashevis singer, singer, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Poland) of Yiddish stories and novels (1904-1991) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | smollett, tobias george smollett, tobias smollett, |
definition | : | Scottish writer of adventure novels (1721-1771) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baron snow of leicester, c. p. snow, charles percy snow, snow, |
definition | : | English writer of novels about moral dilemmas in academe (1905-1980) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | aleksandr i. solzhenitsyn, aleksandr solzhenitsyn, alexander isayevich solzhenitsyn, solzhenitsyn, |
definition | : | Soviet writer and political dissident whose novels exposed the brutality of Soviet labor camps (born in 1918) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sontag, susan sontag, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1933) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | dame muriel spark, muriel sarah spark, muriel spark, spark, |
definition | : | Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | frank morrison spillane, mickey spillane, spillane, |
definition | : | United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | baronne anne louise germaine necker de steal-holstein, madame de stael, stael, |
definition | : | French romantic writer (1766-1817) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sir richrd steele, steele, |
definition | : | English writer (1672-1729) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | gertrude stein, stein, |
definition | : | experimental expatriate United States writer (1874-1946) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john ernst steinbeck, john steinbeck, steinbeck, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for his novels about agricultural workers (1902-1968) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | marie henri beyle, stendhal, |
definition | : | French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sir leslie stephen, stephen, |
definition | : | English writer (1832-1904) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | laurence sterne, sterne, |
definition | : | English writer (born in Ireland) (1713-1766) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | robert louis balfour stevenson, robert louis stevenson, stevenson, |
definition | : | Scottish author (1850-1894) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | francis richard stockton, frank stockton, stockton, |
definition | : | United States writer (1834-1902) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | abraham stoker, bram stoker, stoker, |
definition | : | Irish writer of the horror novel about Dracula (1847-1912) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harriet beecher stowe, harriet elizabeth beecher stowe, stowe, |
definition | : | United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | styron, william styron, |
definition | : | United States writer best known for his novels (born in 1925) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eugene sue, sue, |
definition | : | French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john addington symonds, symonds, |
definition | : | English writer (1840-1893) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | rabindranath tagore, sir rabindranath tagore, tagore, |
definition | : | Indian writer and philosopher whose poetry (based on traditional Hindu themes) pioneered the use of colloquial Bengali (1861-1941) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ida m. tarbell, ida minerva tarbell, ida tarbell, tarbell, |
definition | : | United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | thackeray, william makepeace thackeray, |
definition | : | English writer (born in India) (1811-1863) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | henry david thoreau, thoreau, |
definition | : | United States writer and social critic (1817-1862) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alexis charles henri maurice de tocqueville, alexis de tocqueville, tocqueville, |
definition | : | French political writer noted for his analysis of American institutions (1805-1859) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alice b. toklas, toklas, |
definition | : | United States writer remembered as the secretary and companion of Gertrude Stein (1877-1967) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | j.r.r. tolkien, john ronald reuel tolkien, tolkien, |
definition | : | British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | count lev nikolayevitch tolstoy, leo tolstoy, tolstoy, |
definition | : | Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | anthony trollope, trollope, |
definition | : | English writer of novels (1815-1882) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ivan sergeevich turgenev, ivan turgenev, turgenev, |
definition | : | Russian writer of stories and novels and plays (1818-1883) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | sigrid undset, undset, |
definition | : | Norwegian novelist (1882-1949) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | louis untermeyer, untermeyer, |
definition | : | United States writer (1885-1977) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john hoyer updike, john updike, updike, |
definition | : | United States author (born 1932) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | carl clinton van doren, carl van doren, van doren, |
definition | : | United States writer and literary critic (1885-1950) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jorge mario pedro vargas llosa, mario vargas llosa, vargas llosa, |
definition | : | Peruvian writer (born in 1936) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | jules verne, verne, |
definition | : | French writer who is considered the father of science fiction (1828-1905) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eugene luther vidal, gore vidal, vidal, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1925) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | arouet, francois-marie arouet, voltaire, |
definition | : | French writer who was the embodiment of 18th century Enlightenment (1694-1778) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | kurt vonnegut, vonnegut, |
definition | : | United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | john barrington wain, john wain, wain, |
definition | : | English writer (1925-1994) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | alice malsenior walker, alice walker, walker, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1944) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edgar wallace, richard horatio edgar wallace, wallace, |
definition | : | English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | fourth earl of orford, horace walpole, horatio walpole, walpole, |
definition | : | English writer and historian; son of Sir Robert Walpole (1717-1797) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | izaak walton, walton, |
definition | : | English writer remember for his treatise on fishing (1593-1683) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mary augusta arnold ward, mrs. humphrey ward, ward, |
definition | : | English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | robert penn warren, warren, |
definition | : | United States writer and poet (1905-1989) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | evelyn arthur saint john waugh, evelyn waugh, waugh, |
definition | : | English author of satirical novels (1903-1966) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | beatrice webb, martha beatrice potter webb, webb, |
definition | : | English writer and a central member of the Fabian Society (1858-1943) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | h. g. wells, herbert george wells, wells, |
definition | : | prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | eudora welty, welty, |
definition | : | United States writer about rural southern life (1909-2001) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | franz werfel, werfel, |
definition | : | United States writer (1890-1945) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | cicily isabel fairfield, dame rebecca west, rebecca west, west, |
definition | : | British writer (born in Ireland) (1892-1983) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | edith newbold jones wharton, edith wharton, wharton, |
definition | : | United States novelist (1862-1937) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | e. b. white, elwyn brooks white, white, |
definition | : | United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | patrick victor martindale white, patrick white, white, |
definition | : | Australian writer (1912-1990) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | elie wiesel, eliezer wiesel, wiesel, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in Romania) who survived Nazi concentration camps and is dedicated to keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust (born in 1928) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde, oscar wilde, wilde, |
definition | : | Irish writer and wit (1854-1900) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | thornton niven wilder, thornton wilder, wilder, |
definition | : | United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | angus frank johnstone wilson, sir angus wilson, wilson, |
definition | : | English writer of novels and short stories (1913-1991) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | harriet wilson, wilson, |
definition | : | author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | owen wister, wister, |
definition | : | United States writer (1860-1938) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | p. g. wodehouse, pelham grenville wodehouse, wodehouse, |
definition | : | English writer known for his humorous novels and stories (1881-1975) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | thomas clayton wolfe, thomas wolfe, wolfe, |
definition | : | United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | thomas kennerly wolfe jr., thomas wolfe, tom wolfe, wolfe, |
definition | : | United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | mary wollstonecraft, mary wollstonecraft godwin, wollstonecraft, |
definition | : | English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | ellen price wood, mrs. henry wood, wood, |
definition | : | English writer of novels about murders and thefts and forgeries (1814-1887) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | adeline virginia stephen woolf, virginia woolf, woolf, |
definition | : | English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | herman wouk, wouk, |
definition | : | United States writer (born in 1915) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | richard wright, wright, |
definition | : | United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | s. s. van dine, willard huntington wright, wright, |
definition | : | United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | israel zangwill, zangwill, |
definition | : | English writer (1864-1926) (noun.person) |
instance hyponym | : | stefan zweig, zweig, |
definition | : | Austrian writer (1881-1942) (noun.person) |
3. be the author of (verb.creation)
hyponym | : | co-author, |
definition | : | be a co-author on (a book, a paper) (verb.creation) |
hyponym | : | ghost, ghostwrite, |
definition | : | write for someone else (verb.creation) |
domain category | : | authorship, composition, penning, writing, |
definition | : | the act of creating written works (noun.act) |
4. someone who originates or causes or initiates something (noun.person)
derivation | : | authorship, paternity, |
definition | : | the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing (noun.act) |
derivation | : | bring forth, generate, |
definition | : | bring into existence (verb.creation) |
5. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) (noun.person)
derivation | : | authorship, composition, penning, writing, |
definition | : | the act of creating written works (noun.act) |
derivation | : | author, |
definition | : | be the author of (verb.creation) |
6. be the author of (verb.creation)
7. someone who originates or causes or initiates something (noun.person)
derivation | : | authorship, paternity, |
definition | : | the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing (noun.act) |
derivation | : | bring forth, generate, |
definition | : | bring into existence (verb.creation) |
8. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) (noun.person)
derivation | : | authorship, composition, penning, writing, |
definition | : | the act of creating written works (noun.act) |
derivation | : | author, |
definition | : | be the author of (verb.creation) |
9. be the author of (verb.creation)
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