author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Agee, James Agee - United States novelist (1909-1955)

Alcott, Louisa May Alcott - United States novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888)

Balzac, Honore Balzac, Honore de Balzac - French novelist; he portrays the complexity of 19th century French society (1799-1850)

Falkner, Faulkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Falkner, William Faulkner - United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)

Jean Genet, Genet - French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)

Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux - French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)

Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo - French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)

George Meredith, Meredith - English novelist and poet (1828-1909)

Luigi Pirandello, Pirandello - Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)

Marcel Proust, Proust - French novelist (1871-1922)

Emile Zola, Zola - French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)