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Meaning author meaning

What does author mean?
Definitions in simple English

author Noun

— An author is the creator of a work; a writer. I am the author of this article. I was the one who wrote it. — An author is a source of information.

author Verb

— If you author something, you create a work as its author. Did you read that article that John authored? It was poorly written.

author

— noun (= writer) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) — noun (= generator) someone who originates or causes or initiates something he was the generator of several complaints — verb be the author of She authored this play

Synonyms author synonyms

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author English » English

writer novelist creator maker write originator compiler poet doer authoress scribe editor composer compose source secretary initiator founder agent playwright pen litterateur inventor generator fiction writer dramatist culprit create cause artist architect write off write in working work type throw that which gives rise stirrer-up stage speller spell speaker spark off scribbler screenwriter scenarist run render recorder

Conjugation author conjugation

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author · verb

Examples author examples

How do I use author in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
I don't know the theater play, but I know the author well.
Richard Roberts is the author of numerous books.
The author doesn't display much talent in his book.
Its author is little more than a college kid.
The author made ten mistakes in as many pages.
Who is the author of the novel?
The author killed himself in his study.
The author presented a copy of his latest book to me.
The author described the murder case vividly.
The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
The author's name is familiar to us.
The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.
Mr Ogata, the author of this book, used to be a newspaperman.
Who is the author of this book?
How long ago did the author die?
What a good scholar the author must be to write such a splendid book!
The author of this book is still young.
The author has a beautiful style.
Who is the author of this story?
The author of this article is a famous critic.
Graham Greene is my favorite author.

Movie subtitles

But he doesn't know who is the author of this message.
And also I am the author.
Your excellency, the author.
Oh, you are an author, a novelist?
He may be a great author, but. I think he's crazy, Walter.
He's an author.
The author chap.
This author chap.
Author chap, sir?
Thus far with rough and all-unable pen our bending author hath pursued the story, in little room confining mighty men, mangling by starts the full course of their glory.
The author.
I have never discussed an author's work with him.
It's surprising enough to find a lady author infinitely more exciting than her heroine could possibly be.
My little daughter is not a monster. and she'll be very excited to know I've been talking to her favorite author.
Author!
Various outlines, treatments and scripts were submitted by 12 writers, before RC Sherriffs approach was accepted by all involved, including author HG Wells.
Philip Wylie, author of The Murderer Invisible novel, was a prolific writer who worked in various genres.
That was William Chandler, the author.
Connie Allenbury marries author.
He may be a great author, but.
What? The author?
The author of this little ditty that you find so offensive.
The Saint-Agil boys' school exists only in the author's imagination. The characters are invented.
Author, author, author!
How do you do, Mr. Jenkins? - Mr. Davis, my author.
I don't care about food for myself, Sash but if you let a great American author starve, his blood will be on your hands.
But the author is looking out for him who has been abandoned by everyone, and so he bestows upon him an epilogue, telling a story that. - unfortunately. - usually doesn't occur in real life.
MAN 1: Author!
MAN 2: Author!
MAN 3: Author! Author!
MAN 4: Author!
MAN 5: Author!
MAN 6: Author! Jerry!
Connie Allenbury marries author. What a story!
H.G. Wells, author of many novels, the most famous of which is this.
Tell me, Mr. Smith, strictly as an author to a publisher, where did you get the idea for your book?
Mary Lou, this is our distinguished author, Mr. Warren.

News and current affairs

His comments infuriated London's provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics scholar and author, who shot back that Clooney's position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
My sometime co-author Carmen Reinhart makes the same point, perhaps even more clearly.
As author Afshin Molavi wrote in his incisive travelogue Persian Pilgrimages, Iranian youth today are not revolutionary idealists, like those of three decades ago.
Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the section of the IPCC report that contained the Himalayan error, admitted that he and his colleagues knew that the dramatic glacier prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed science.
Phelps stresses that corporatist thinking has had a long and enduring history, going back to Saint Paul, the author of as many as 14 books of the New Testament.
Lately, Ms. He Qinglian, a well-known author, journalist, and critic of China's reforms has been watched daily by as many as twelve agents.
It is now four centuries since the birth of a masterpiece whose author and hero both seem younger than we do.
Unfortunately, van Rompuy, an author and poet, has spoken out against Turkish membership in far cruder terms than one would expect from a gentle haiku writer.
In Berlin, there is much concern about the possible desecration of the Holocaust Memorial, although its author, the American architect Peter Eisenmann, takes a relaxed view of what is said and done about his creation.
No, the author has many of his facts wrong and goes beyond reasonable speculation, which brings him disdain from scientists.
Naipaul is, after all, an author of Indian descent who grew up in Trinidad.
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series of popular investment books, bases his books' titles and themes on a comparison of his own highly-educated father with his friend's father, an eighth-grade dropout.
The case of Somalia-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the bestselling author of Infidel, best illustrates both the popular resentments and the relative openness that mark contemporary Dutch society.
Two important links with the earlier network are US economist James Galbraith, the son of John Kenneth Galbraith, and British economist Ha-Joon Chang, author of the best-selling 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism.
Both, of course, are by the same author: Felipe Pigna, a 45-year-old historian.
Though the American author did not hire British counsel and did not try to defend herself in the UK, she was ordered to pay damages, arousing outrage in the United States.
The author, a BoE employee named Tobias Neumann, argued that incorporating more data into the models could lead them to pick up noise and mistake it for an important signal.
Second, household over-indebtedness in the US, as well as the fall in demand, is localized, as my colleague Amir Sufi and his co-author, Atif Mian, have shown.
Professor Yu Keping, an influential Communist official and author of a prominent book called Democracy Is a Good Thing, is said to have the ear of President Hu.
The author of that report - a Greenpeace staff member - was one of the IPCC's lead authors.
Samuelson, a Nobel laureate, was the doyen of American economists: his famous textbook, Economics went through 14 editions in its author's lifetime, introducing future economists worldwide to the rudiments of their craft.
Liu was co-author in 2008 of a petition, Charter 08, signed by thousands of Chinese, calling for basic rights to be respected.
What was remarkable about this framework was that its principal author, the major superpower of the day, accepted its authority.
Perhaps frustrated by his failure to find factual errors in my reporting, the author of the report offered some editorial comments that epitomized the flawed thinking on which the war rested.

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