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Authors & Writers
Definition (Oxford Paperback Dictionary Thesaurus 2001)
A writer is a person who has written a particular text, or who writes books or articles as an occupation - the thesaurus lists author, bard, composer, dramatist, journalist, littérateur, novelist, playwright, poet, wordsmith.
Please link the profiles of writers to this project and consider whether they could also be added to other genre projects listed below. This is a universal project.
Related Geni projects
- Authors of Great Literature
- Authors of children's literature
- Authors of Current Internationally "Best Selling" Novels
- Autobiographers
- Banned Authors
- Christmas Authors
- Comic Book Writers
- Detective and Mystery Novels
- Diarists
- English Language Writers
- Essayists
- Jewish Comic Book Artists
- Journalists and Reporters
- Litteratur / Kirjallisuutta / Literature
- Lyricists, including Librettists, Songwriters and Singer Songwriters
- Memoirists
- New Age writers
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Novelists
- Playwrights
- Poets
- Postmodern writers
- Publishers
- Pulitzer prize winners
- Sci Fi - Science fiction
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
- Screenwriters
- Spy fiction
Related Country specific Projects
- American Authors- Pulp Fiction
- Filipino Writers and Journalists
- Hrvatski književnici/Croatian writers
- Irish Writers
- Norsk litteratur - Norwegian Literature
- Slovenski pisatelji / Slovenian writers
- United Kingdom
References and Sources
Celebrated and influential writers from around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work and can also be described as a writer.
Authors & Writers
Definition (Oxford Paperback Dictionary Thesaurus 2001)
A writer is a person who has written a particular text, or who writes books or articles as an occupation - the thesaurus lists author, bard, composer, dramatist, journalist, littérateur, novelist, playwright, poet, wordsmith.
Please link the profiles of writers to this project and consider whether they could also be added to other genre projects listed below. This is a universal project.
Related Geni projects
- Authors of Great Literature
- Authors of children's literature
- Authors of Current Internationally "Best Selling" Novels
- Autobiographers
- Banned Authors
- Christmas Authors
- Comic Book Writers
- Detective and Mystery Novels
- Diarists
- English Language Writers
- Essayists
- Jewish Comic Book Artists
- Journalists and Reporters
- Litteratur / Kirjallisuutta / Literature
- Lyricists, including Librettists, Songwriters and Singer Songwriters
- Memoirists
- New Age writers
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Novelists
- Playwrights
- Poets
- Publishers
- Pulitzer prize winners
- Sci Fi - Science fiction
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame
- Screenwriters
- Spy fiction
Related Country specific Projects
- American Authors- Pulp Fiction
- Filipino Writers and Journalists
- Hrvatski književnici/Croatian writers
- Irish Writers
- Norsk litteratur - Norwegian Literature
- Slovenski pisatelji / Slovenian writers
- United Kingdom
References and Sources
Celebrated and influential writers from around the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work and can also be described as a writer.