

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.
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.