communicator - a person who communicates with others

abstracter, abstractor - one who makes abstracts or summarizes information

alliterator - a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration

authoress - a woman author

biographer - someone who writes an account of a person's life

coauthor, joint author - a writer who collaborates with others in writing something

commentator, reviewer - a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day

contributor - a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book

cyberpunk - a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology

drafter - a writer of a draft

dramatist, playwright - someone who writes plays

compiler, encyclopaedist, encyclopedist - a person who compiles (or writes for) encyclopedias

essayist, litterateur - a writer of literary works

folk writer - a writer of folktales

framer - someone who writes a new law or plan; "the framers of the Constitution"

gagster, gagwriter, gagman - someone who writes comic material for public performers

ghostwriter, ghost - a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else

Gothic romancer - a writer of Gothic romances

hack writer, literary hack, hack - a mediocre and disdained writer

journalist - a writer for newspapers and magazines

librettist - author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta

lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs

novelist - someone who writes novels

pamphleteer - a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)

paragrapher - a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)

poet - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

polemic, polemicist, polemist - a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)

poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester, versifier - a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets)

scenarist - a writer of screenplays

scriptwriter - someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas

space writer - a writer paid by the area of the copy

speechwriter - a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver

tragedian - a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies

wordmonger - a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning

word-painter - a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power

wordsmith - a fluent and prolific writer

Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken - United States writer (1889-1973)

Alger, Horatio Alger - United States author of inspirational adventure stories for boys; virtue and hard work overcome poverty (1832-1899)

Algren, Nelson Algren - United States writer (1909-1981)

Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen - a Danish author remembered for his fairy stories (1805-1875)

Anderson, Sherwood Anderson - United States author whose works were frequently autobiographical (1876-1941)

Aragon, Louis Aragon - French writer who generalized surrealism to literature (1897-1982)

Asch, Shalom Asch, Sholem Asch, Sholom Asch - United States writer (born in Poland) who wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957)

Asimov, Isaac Asimov - United States writer (born in Russia) noted for his science fiction (1920-1992)

Auchincloss, Louis Auchincloss, Louis Stanton Auchincloss - United States writer (born in 1917)

diarist, diary keeper, journalist - someone who keeps a diary or journal

literate, literate person - a person who can read and write

scrawler, scribbler - a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read

good speller, poor speller, speller - someone who spells words

transcriber - someone who makes a written version of spoken material

transcriber - someone who rewrites in a different script