Author
1) The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is a profession (doing this for pay).
2) An author is someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
3) The same as definition number 1, but applied to music. The sole fact of creating a sequence of notes, even if they are not written on paper, might give someone the title of author of a melody, chords sequence, arrangement, etc.
See also: Writer
Lists of specific types of authors:
- List of biographers
- List of children's literature authors
- List of crime writers
- List of dramatists
- List of essayists
- List of fantasy authors
- List of historians
- List of historical novelists
- List of horror fiction authors
- List of humorists
- List of journalists
- List of military writers
- List of novelists by country (includes other types of authors).
- List of novelists by genre
- Lists of poets
- List of political authors
- List of romantic novelists
- List of science fiction authors
- List of screenwriters
- List of short story authors
- List of surrealist poets
