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• abstractor, abstracter go
  one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
  
• alliterator go
  a speaker or writer who makes use of alliteration
  
• authoress go
  a woman author
  
• biographer go
  someone who writes an account of a person's life
  
• coauthor, joint author go
  a writer who collaborates with others in writing something
  
• commentator, reviewer go
  a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day
  
• compiler go
  a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes)
  
• contributor go
  a writer whose work is published in a newspaper or magazine or as part of a book
  
• cyberpunk go
  a writer of science fiction set in a lawless subculture of an oppressive society dominated by computer technology
  
• drafter go
  a writer of a draft
  
• dramatist, playwright go
  someone who writes plays
  
• essayist, litterateur go
  a writer of literary works
  
• folk writer go
  a writer of folktales
  
• framer go
  someone who writes a new law or plan
  
• gagman, gagster, gagwriter go
  someone who writes comic material for public performers
  
• ghost, ghostwriter go
  a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
  
• Gothic romancer go
  a writer of Gothic romances
  
• hack, hack writer, literary hack go
  a mediocre and disdained writer
  
• journalist go
  a writer for newspapers and magazines
  
• librettist go
  author of words to be set to music in an opera or operetta
  
• lyricist, lyrist go
  a person who writes the words for songs
  
• novelist go
  one who writes novels
  
• pamphleteer go
  a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)
  
• paragrapher go
  a writer of paragraphs (as for publication on the editorial page of a newspaper)
  
• poet go
  a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
  
• polemic, polemicist, polemist go
  a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
  
• rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser go
  a writer who composes rhymes
  
• scenarist go
  a writer of screenplays
  
• scriptwriter go
  someone who writes scripts for plays or movies or broadcast dramas
  
• space writer go
  a writer paid by the area of the copy
  
• speechwriter go
  a writer who composes speeches for others to deliver
  
• tragedian go
  a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies
  
• wordmonger go
  a writer who uses language carelessly or pretentiously with little regard for meaning
  
• word-painter go
  a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power
  
• wordsmith go
  a fluent and prolific writer