Crossword clues for author
author
- Name on a book jacket
- Novel creator
- Mailer or Miller
- J.K. Rowling, for one
- Card catalog datum
- Appreciative cry after a play
- Wolfe or Woolf
- Twain for one
- Touring pro, perhaps
- Theater shout
- Tan or Brown
- Talk show guest, often
- Swift or Crane
- Stephen King, e.g
- Spine handle
- Published one
- Producer of written work
- Playwright, e.g
- Playgoers shout
- Orwell or Wells
- Opening-night call
- One with a byline
- One who works with a lot of characters
- One who pens
- One who decides on sentences?
- Manuscript producer
- Mailer, for one
- Lamb or Rice
- Figure at a book signing
- Dickens or Doyle
- Dan Brown or Amy Tan
- Book's writer
- Anonymous one, sometimes
- 'The Daily Show' guest, often
- London or Manchester, e.g.
- Create
- Pen
- Lamb or Bacon
- With 26-Across, 1982 Al Pacino film
- With 24-Across, 1962 P. G. Wodehouse book
- Stephen King or Ellery Queen
- Often-doubled cry at a play
- Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
- Someone who originates or causes or initiates something
- Creator
- King or Sheldon
- Harold Robbins or Robin Cook
- Glasgow or London
- Garcia Marquez, for one, nevertheless bathed in aura endlessly
- Chesterton, perhaps, or the individual behind "Thursday"
- Car on run passing Henry 25 for one
- One writes to the French thunder god
- Write out earth's prime locations when travelling
- Source gold after gold filling falls out of tooth
- Someone who writes in French, to the Thunderer?
- Person who writes of a universal god
- A universal god creator
- Two lots of gold rings extremely tough for creator
- Thoreau, regardless of fame, ultimately, may be construed as such
- Architect gold-plated exterior of triumphal arch
- Spine line
- Name on a spine
- Name on the cover
- Character builder?
- Bacon or Lamb
- People in power
- Novelist, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), n. [OE. authour, autour, OF. autor, F. auteur, fr. L. auctor, sometimes, but erroneously, written autor or author, fr. augere to increase, to produce. See Auction, n.]
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The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being.
--Milton. -
One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.
--Johnson. The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
An informant. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.
Author \Au"thor\ ([add]"th[~e]r), v. t.
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To occasion; to originate. [Obs.]
Such an overthrow . . . I have authored.
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To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.]
More of him I dare not author.
--Massinger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from author (n.). Revived 1940s, chiefly U.S. Related: Authored; authoring.
c.1300, autor "father," from Old French auctor, acteor "author, originator, creator, instigator (12c., Modern French auteur), from Latin auctorem (nominative auctor) "enlarger, founder, master, leader," literally "one who causes to grow," agent noun from auctus, past participle of augere "to increase" (see augment). Meaning "one who sets forth written statements" is from late 14c. The -t- changed to -th- 16c. on mistaken assumption of Greek origin.\n\n...[W]riting means revealing onesself to excess .... This is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why even night is not night enough. ... I have often thought that the best mode of life for me would be to sit in the innermost room of a spacious locked cellar with my writing things and a lamp. Food would be brought and always put down far away from my room, outside the cellar's outermost door. The walk to my food, in my dressing gown, through the vaulted cellars, would be my only exercise. I would then return to my table, eat slowly and with deliberation, then start writing again at once. And how I would write! From what depths I would drag it up!
[Franz Kafka]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition. 2 # ''(the author)'' I, me. (non-gloss: used in academic articles as first-person pronoun.) 3 Someone who writes books for a living. 4 The works of an author or authors. vb. (context chiefly US English) To create a work as its #Noun.
WordNet
v. be the author of; "She authored this play"
Wikipedia
An author is narrowly defined as the originator of any written work and can thus also be described as a writer (with any distinction primarily being an implication that an author is a writer of one or more major works, such as books or plays). More broadly defined, an author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. The more specific phrase published author refers to an author (especially but not necessarily of books) whose work has been independently accepted for publication by a reputable publisher , versus a self-publishing author or an unpublished one .
An author is a person who created (or is creating) a written work such as a book, poem, or article.
"Author" may also refer to:
- Author (bicycles), a Czech brand of bicycles and sporting goods
- Author citation (botany)
- Author citation (zoology)
- Author (music), the creator of a piece of music
- Authors (card game)
- Writer
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Usage examples of "author".
These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.
The author is prepared, after careful consideration, to accept and professionally indorse, with few exceptions, the conclusions as to the probable character of the decimating diseases of the passengers and crew of the MAY-FLOWER, so ably and interestingly presented by Dr.
The author subjected the contents of the stomach of one patient to quite an extensive analysis, without finding any abnormality of secretion.
In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to acknowledge the Aboriginal Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies for their financial assistance with the preparation of this book.
What made the book different from routine, acerbic attacks on the industry was the scholarly thoroughness of its author, Dr.
He arrays skilfully the facts and reasonings which British inquirers have adduced in favor of Sir Philip Francis, and the other most probable author, Lord George Sackville.
It must not be forgotten that his modelled work derives an adventitious merit from the splendour of the frescoes with which it is surrounded, and from our admiration of the astounding range of power manifested by their author.
That he was an Adventurer is but recently discovered by the author, but there appears no room for doubt as to the fact.
Coral Lorenzen, author of The Great Flying Saucer Hoax and an international director of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, immediately followed through on the startling rumors by putting in a call to Terry Clarke of KALG Radio in Alamogordo, nine miles east of Holloman.
The Overlook Connection Press along with the story upon which the book was based, a prologue from a sequel-in-progress, an Introduction by Brian Hodge and an Afterword by the author.
Arkham House werewolf novel, published for the first time in Britain with a new Introduction by the author, an Afterword and interior illustrations by Stephen Jones, and a wraparound dustjacket by Randy Broecker.
In their afterwords, the authors described their favourite ghost stories.
Its authors, Heinz van Foerster, Patricia Mora and Lawrence Amiot, were members of the staff of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
Rubber Bible to hand as the fearless author juggles with triple points or the properties of ammonial ice eutectics.