Author
1) An author writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature.
2) An author is someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
Lists of specific types of authors:
- List of biographers
- List of children's literature authors
- List of crime writers
- List of dramatists
- List of essayists
- List of historians
- List of historical novelists
- List of horror fiction authors
- List of humorists
- List of military writers
- List of novelists by country (includes other types of authors).
- List of novelists by genre
- List of poets
- Lists of poets
- List of romantic novelists
- List of science fiction authors
- List of screenwriters
- List of short story authors
- List of fantasy authors
Lists of various authors:
- List of American authors
- List of Japanese authors
- List of Chinese authors
- List of French authors
- List of German authors
See also: Writer, list of authors