| absurdist |
a thinker, writer, or the like who asserts that human existence and behavior are absurd. [1/3 definitions] |
| Aesop |
an actual or legendary Greek writer of fables (620?-560? B.C.). |
| ancient |
(often pl.) one who lived in ancient times, esp. a writer of the classic civilizations. [1/4 definitions] |
| annalist |
a writer of annals. |
| Augustan |
a writer during one of the Augustan periods. [1/3 definitions] |
| author |
the writer of a book, play, story, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| Bohemian |
(often l.c.) a person, such as a writer, artist, or other intellectual, whose lifestyle is unconventional. [2/6 definitions] |
| Casanova |
Giovanni Jacopo, an Italian adventurer and writer (1725-98). [1/2 definitions] |
| chansonnier |
a French singer and writer, often of satirical or topical songs. |
| Charles Darwin |
an English naturalist and writer who developed theories of biological evolution (b.1809--d.1882). |
| columnist |
a writer or editor of a regular column or feature in a newspaper or magazine. |
| comedian |
an actor or writer of comic works. [1/3 definitions] |
| emoticon |
a small icon made of typed keyboard characters used in electronic communication to convey the mood of the writer. |
| Ernest Hemingway |
U.S. fiction writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 (b.1899--d.1961). |
| fantasist |
one who creates fantasies, esp. a writer of fantasies. |
| first person |
in grammar, a category of pronouns, inflections, and the like indicating the writer or speaker of a sentence or the group of which he or she is a member. [1/3 definitions] |
| Friedrich Engels |
a German political theorist and writer (b.1820--d.1895). |
| hack2 |
one who is hired to do routine or unpleasant tasks, esp. a writer hired to produce uncreative and unimaginative work; drudge. [2/10 definitions] |
| hatchet man |
a writer or critic who maliciously attacks people to destroy their reputations. [1/3 definitions] |
| Henry David Thoreau |
a U.S. naturalist and writer (b.1817--d.1862). |
| idealist |
an artist or writer who conveys an ideal vision of the world. [1/3 definitions] |