Antonym: reader. Similar words: authority, authorize, authorization, authoritative, authoritarian, thorough, hawthorn, thoroughly. Meaning: ['ɔːθə] 
n. 1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) 2. someone who originates or causes or initiates something. v. be the author of.
n. 1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) 2. someone who originates or causes or initiates something. v. be the author of. 
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1 Choose an author as you choose a friend. 
2 He who purposes to be an author, should first be a student.
3 Like author, like book.
4 Tom is quite familiar with the author.
5 The volume had been personally inscribed by the author.
6 The author of the article is nameless.
7 The book has a preface written by the author.
8 Nothomb is a Belgian author.
9 The author mentioned it in the previous paragraph.
10 Mark Twain is my favorite author.
11 Textual analysis identified the author as Shakespeare.
12 The author frequently quoted Shakespeare.
13 The book catapulted the author into fame overnight.
14 Haruki Murakami is Japan's best-selling author.
15 He is the author of two books on French history.
16 He was an eighteenth-century author who wrote parodies of other people's works.
17 Author and subject indexes are available on a library database.
18 The author is going to adapt his stories for television.
19 The author portrays life in a refugee camp very vividly.
20 After the play they called for the author to show himself.
21 Martin Parry, author of the report,(www.Sentencedict.com) says it's time for concerted action by world leaders.
22 The author belongs among the romance writers more than among the novelists.
23 The author uses disease as a metaphor for the corruption in society.
24 The author picks the same theme up again on page ten.
25 In his preface, the author says that he took eight years to write the book.
26 The author prefers to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.
27 We should group together all the books by the same author.
28 The TV series 'An Angel at my Table' was based on the autobiographies of the New Zealand author Janet Frame.
29 The reviewer padded out his review with a lengthy biography of the author.
30 What one describes in the books is one's thought in his mind. The personality of a book is that of the author.
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