| | abstractor, abstracter; alliterator; authoress; biographer; coauthor, joint author; commentator, reviewer; contributor; cyberpunk; drafter; dramatist, playwright; encyclopedist, encyclopaedist, compiler; essayist, litterateur; folk writer; framer; gagman, gagster, gagwriter; ghostwriter, ghost; Gothic romancer; hack, hack writer, literary hack; journalist; librettist; lyricist; novelist; pamphleteer; paragrapher; poet; polemicist, polemist, polemic; rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser; scenarist; scriptwriter; space writer; speechwriter; tragedian; wordmonger; word-painter; wordsmith; Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken; Alger, Horatio Alger; Algren, Nelson Algren; Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen; Anderson, Sherwood Anderson; Aragon, Louis Aragon; Asch, Sholem Asch, Shalom Asch, Sholom Asch; Asimov, Isaac Asimov; Auchincloss, Louis Auchincloss, Louis Stanton Auchincloss; Austen, Jane Austen; Baldwin, James Baldwin, James Arthur Baldwin; Baraka, Imamu Amiri Baraka, LeRoi Jones; Barth, John Barth, John Simmons Barth; Barthelme, Donald Barthelme; Baum, Frank Baum, Lyman Frank Brown; Beckett, Samuel Beckett; Beerbohm, Max Beerbohm, Sir Henry Maxmilian Beerbohm; Belloc, Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Peter Belloc; Bellow, Saul Bellow; Benchley, Robert Benchley, Robert Charles Benchley; Benet, William Rose Benet; Bierce, Ambrose Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett Bierce; Boll, Heinrich Boll, Heinrich Theodor Boll; Bontemps, Arna Wendell Bontemps; Borges, Jorge Borges, Jorge Luis Borges; Boswell, James Boswell; Boyle, Kay Boyle; Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Ray Douglas Bradbury; Bronte, Charlotte Bronte; Bronte, Emily Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte, Currer Bell; Bronte, Anne Bronte; Browne, Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward; Buck, Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck; Bunyan, John Bunyan; Burgess, Anthony Burgess; Burnett, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett; Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs; Burroughs, William Burroughs, William S. 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