author
/ˈɔ.θɚ/ noun A2- The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work. · The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.· Have you read any Corinthian authors?
- The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship. · The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc.
- Someone who writes books for a living.
- The creator or cause of anything.
Plural authors
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You seem a worthy young man; I will depart from the strict line of my duty to aid you in discovering the author of this accusation.
Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?
From this view of things, then, comes the axiom that if you visit to discover the author of any bad action, seek first to discover the person to whom the perpetration of that bad action could be in any way advantageous.
Author of Heavy Game of the Western Himalayas (1881); Three Months in the Jungle (1884).
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