author noun
ADJ. best-selling | prolific | famous, well-known | anonymous the anonymous author of this pamphlet | children's Primarily a children's author, she has also written books for adults.
VERB + AUTHOR read Stephen King is an author I've never read.
AUTHOR + VERB write (sth) The author was writing in the seventeenth century.
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