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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151 The author has a vision of an emerging worldwide Christian communion.
152 As an author she has a small but loyal readership.
153 The author interrupts her narrative to tell us that the idea for the book had not been well received.
154 What exactly the author meant by that statement is open to interpretation .
155 The author abandons the conventions of linear narrative and normal chronology.
156 She asked the author if she had modelled her hero on anybody in particular.
157 The series was based on the autobiographies of the author.
158 I seem to recognize the quotation,(http://sentencedict.com/author.html) but I cannot pin it down to its author.
159 All the artwork in the book has been done by the author.
160 James Fox is best known as the author of White Mischief.
161 The author died before his book had seen the light.
162 Pirandello titled his play "Six Characters in Search of an Author".
163 The author makes several sweeping generalizations about the causes of the crisis.
164 The author devotes the first three chapters to the subject.
165 The author of the guidebook is an architect by profession.
166 As the author of the scheme I can't really comment.
167 The author vets every script for the new TV series.
168 He read every book or author it deals with, often in the original.
169 There's a picture of the author on the back cover.
170 Sir Thomas More is remembered today as the author of Utopia.
171 He's the author of an erudite book on Scottish history.
172 The author gave various reasons for having written the book.
173 The author skilfully draws together the different threads of the plot.
174 The sheer quantity of detail would bemuse even the most clear-headed author.
175 In the opening chapter, the author traces the development of judo from its ancient roots.
176 Either an author or a man interested in literature is named a literary man.
177 She's the author of three detective novels under the moniker of Janet Neel.
178 The author distanced himself from some of the comments in his book.
179 The author discusses why female beauty has become linked to thinness.
180 She's the author of the company's recent success/of all our troubles.
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