The Collaborative International Dictionary
Continuator \Con*tin"u*a`tor\, n. [Cf. F. continuateur.]
One who, or that which, continues; esp., one who continues a
series or a work; a continuer.
--Sir T. Browne.
Wiktionary
n. A person who continues the work of another
Wikipedia
A continuator, in literature, is a writer who creates a new work based on someone else's prior text, such as a novel or novel fragment. The new work may complete the older work (as with the numerous continuations of Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon), or may try to serve as a sequel or prequel to the older work (such as Alexandra Ripley's Scarlett, an authorized continuation of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind). This phenomenon differs from those authors who, because they share a common culture, use characters or themes from a common cultural stock.
Usage examples of "continuator".
The continuator of Fredegarius imputes to them no more than the intention.
This absurd scruple is expressed almost in the same words by the continuator of Theophanes, (Scriptores post Theophanem, p.
This crime was also attributed to Saladin, who is said, by an Oriental authority, (the continuator of Tabari,) to have employed the assassins to murder both Conrad and Richard.
The continuator of Fredegarius imputes to them no more than the intention.
This absurd scruple is expressed almost in the same words by the continuator of Theophanes, (Scriptores post Theophanem, p.
This crime was also attributed to Saladin, who is said, by an Oriental authority, (the continuator of Tabari,) to have employed the assassins to murder both Conrad and Richard.
His continuators were Ulrich von Turnheim and Heinrich von Freiberg, whose denouement (not, however, original with them) was followed by Hermann Kurtz when he published a version of Gottfried's poem in modern German in 1844.
Had I written to you from thence it would have been a continuation of Sterne upon noses, & I knew that nature had not formed me for a Continuator of Sterne: so let it alone till came here and received your angry letter.