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    Wyatt Emory Cooper (1927 - 1978)
    Wyatt Emory Cooper Wyatt Emory Cooper was an American author and screenwriter. Cooper moved to New York in his twenties to pursue acting. When he was 26, he appeared on Broadway in the cast of Th...
  • Loring Grant Underwood (1874 - 1930)
    Loring Grant Underwood Born in Belmont, Massachusetts, Underwood studied at Harvard University, graduating with an A.B. degree in 1897. From 1898 to 1899 he studied at Harvard’s Bussey Instit...
  • Professor William Thompson Sedgwick, MD, PhD (1855 - 1921)
    Professor William Thompson Sedgwick, MD, PhD Professor Sedgwick was a teacher, epidemiologist, bacteriologist, and a key figure in shaping public health in the United States. Focused on e...
  • Professor Richard Austin Rice, DD (1846 - 1925)
    Richard Austin Rice Richard Austin Rice was born 22 Oct. 1846 in Madison, Connecticut. In 1850 the family moved to Stamford. He attended school in Winthrop, Madison, the Stamford Academy, a...
  • Alice Notley (1945 - 2025)
    Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945 - 19 May 2025) was an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied...
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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.

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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.

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.
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