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author
adjectives
a famous/well-known author
• The famous author Henry James lived here.
a best-selling author
• Ian McEwan is a best-selling author.
a children’s author
• the children’s author Roald Dahl
your favourite author
• Who’s your favourite author?
a prolific author
(= one who writes many books )
• She is also a prolific author with more than 70 books published.
a contributing author
(= someone who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine, or who writes part of a book, report etc )
• Ms Gomez was a contributing author to Chapter 1 of the WG II Report.
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noun
original writer:
The book's author spoke to me.
Simple Definitions
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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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary