1A person who has written a particular text.

1. 1.1 A person who writes books, stories, or articles as a job or regular occupation.
   the distinguished travel writer Freya Stark

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   • The play is part of the Shell Connections project which involves the UK National Theatre commissioning ten professional writers to write new work for youth theatre.
   • Also, they all work in creative fields - artists, musicians, writers, architectural photographers, cartoonists.
   • Through his British publisher, Crane met the writer Joseph Conrad, who became his close friend.
   • When Marcus founded Irish Writing in 1946, he courted writers of short stories and poetry, rather than novelists, to fill its pages.
   • Members include a variety or writers and would vary from scribblers to novelists, poets, and writers of short stories and writers for children.
   • Elisabeth Hurst is a writer of short stories; Jo Rittenhouse is a poet.
   • First print runs for established literary fiction writers such as Margaret Atwood tend to average 30,000 or 40,000.
   • ‘The book is about growing old as a man,’ says short story writer, novelist and playwright Carl Nixon.
   • This connection to both local and global urban realities has generated a range of critical responses from culture brokers and art writers.
   • Today, Dave is a lobster fisherman, while Maureen is both a fisher and a writer of short stories, novels, poetry, and children's literature.
   • Alex Ninian is a travel writer whose articles on India and other countries have appeared in numerous British and American publications.
   • The short story writers I have enjoyed most recently are Etgar Keret and Jhumpa Lahiri.
   • From Joburg to Jozi is a compilation of short stories by writers and journalists who live or who have lived in the city.
   • The project paid for theatre productions and kept professional actors, writers and theatre workers employed.
   • Mansfield, born in turn-of-the-century New Zealand, was one of the first modern short story writers to fuse prose and poetry.
   • Gurdev Singh Ropana is an acclaimed writer of short stories and novels in Punjabi.
   • Dryden is also one of the first writers of English literary criticism.
   • Science fiction writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells have written about life on and invaders from Mars.
   • The Trust now holds regular readings of Wordsworth's works, using actors, and employs writers and artists in residence to breathe life into the poet's legacy.
   • And as a bonus there are a few literary/review essays on writers like Nabokov, Sebald and Evelyn Waugh.

   Synonyms

   author, wordsmith, man of letters, woman of letters, penman, creative writer
2. 1.2with adjective A person who writes in a specified way.
   Dickens was a prolific writer

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   • A prolific writer of books and scientific articles, Hammond received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard.
   • He's now an accomplished writer with an excellent book of short stories under his belt and a novel on the way.
   • In ‘Fiction,’ she is a lousy writer in a short story class with her cerebral palsy boyfriend.
   • Mitch described the person behind Layne as an ‘accomplished but frustrated writer.’
   • As befits a highly prolific writer he's uneven, but when he's good he's very good.
   • A prolific writer, Terrell published articles in over thirty newspapers, magazines, and journals.
   • A passionate teacher and prolific writer, she has many publications to her name, said Bara.
   • In addition to his talent for creating short, exciting adolescent novels, Lubar is a fine writer of short stories for young people.
   • Leach was such a skillful and prolific writer himself that I wondered why someone else would want to tell his story.
   • Nora Sayre was a witty, vivacious writer with a steel backbone who set herself to being a chronicler of her - and the left's - times.
   • The loneliness of the long distance writer is not an option when you have a writing partner.
   • Hardy was an especially polished and prolific writer and had the greatest effect in leading this resurgence of British mathematics.
   • However, the author of Trainspotting has revealed that his streetwise style owes as much to classical writers such as Jane Austen, George Eliot and Walter Scott as to modern pop influences.
   • He was one of the most prolific writers with some 175 books and 15 plays to his credit.
   • I was influenced by the beat poets and the Southern writers like William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.
   • The writer, Charlie Kauffman is probably one of the most exciting writers we have available.
   • Campanella, a Dominican priest, prolific writer, and imaginative thinker, fell foul of the Inquisition in the 1590s.
   • She was a prolific writer with thirty-five books published to her credit.
   • But Zoë was a fairly prolific writer during the years I lived with her.
   • He's an infinitely finer writer than his dad ever was.
   • He is also an eerily prolific writer, producing a quality article on culture and society for his weblog every weekday.
   • An engineer, prolific writer and social activist with a difference, he was different things to different people.
3. 1.3 A composer of musical works.
   a writer of military music

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   • As the writer of musicals with the greatest mass appeal of the past half-century, he has ready access to wealth and fame.
   • Oscar Hammerstein - the greatest musical writer before Sondheim - was a friend of the Sondheim family, and adopted the teenage musician as a protégé.
   • Musical writers have ran out of ideas - and their producers are refusing to take risks on something that may well turn out to be a flop.
   • It is now my intention to invite a few experienced musical writers willing to share their thoughts on the matter, so watch this space!
   • Shenandoah has also pursued an acting career and is a writer of musical scores and soundtracks.
   • I would love to see more music writers put their stuff up for us to hear.
   • Christian is promptly enlisted as the writer for the musical about freedom and love that the bohemians are intent on producing.
   • The words he set were produced two centuries earlier by the great and prolific William Williams, writer of more than 1,000 hymns.
4. 1.4Computing A device that writes data to a storage medium.
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   • You could use a zip drive, a CDR / DVD writer, a USB drive or a secure online storage service.
   • Support for multimedia devices such as CD writers is improved but SuSE support for scanners, though improved, remains less than perfect.
   • Goods seized included 1000s of illegal copies of software, music and films plus PCs, CD / DVD writers and video recorders.
   • Like most of the DVD writers of the last 6 months, there is no headphone jack or volume control on the front of the DRW8800.
5. 1.5Stock Market A broker who makes an option available for purchase or sells options.
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   • The writers look at many options and identify opportunities to meet different financial needs.
   • The writer of a naked option, be it a put or a call, would therefore not benefit from a rise in volatility since writers desire the price of the option to decline.
   • The option writers on the gold floor have been writing calls on the metals markets with impunity as of late.
   • A put is a commitment by the writer to sell shares at a given price sometime in the future.
   • In this case, the put writer would sell a put at a strike price below the market price and collect the premium.
6. 1.6with adjective A person who has a specified kind of handwriting.
   neat writers

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   • Writing on paper is great, and I, too, am a fast and neat writer.
   • If you're a sloppy writer, try to find a way to write messily but still make it look good.
7. 1.7British historical A scribe.
8. 1.8British archaic A clerk, especially in the navy or other government offices.