The phrase "a distinguished author" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an author who is highly respected and recognized for their contributions to literature or a specific field.
Example: "The conference featured a distinguished author who shared insights from her latest novel."
Alternatives: "a renowned author" or "an esteemed author."
(I quote from a private letter from a distinguished author).
He went to Highgate school, where his history teacher was Alan Palmer, later a distinguished author.
That first snippet is from a recent article by James Carroll, a distinguished author and a former priest.
A young knight-librarian, Rook Barkwater, inches his way through peril, meeting ferocious birds, treacherous blowholes and bogs, and much else to keep him on his mettle.Ursula Le Guin is a distinguished author of fantasies for older children.
A friend - a distinguished author and former Fleet Street hack who had better remain nameless - has long tried to persuade me that they simply aren't as good as men at news journalism.
Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished author and editor of children's books whose work — both her own titles and those of the writers in her stable — offered even the youngest readers a forthright view of emotionally fraught subjects like anger, envy and death, died on Tuesday at her home in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Conceived after Judt's illness had already been diagnosed, the book consists of transcriptions of his conversations with Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian who is the distinguished author of a number of well-regarded books on Eastern and Central Europe.
Larry Shiner, an architectural philosopher and distinguished author, defines the controversies that always surround museum architecture as a dispute between "spectacular and deferential" designs.
This work first published in 1862 "has received a careful overhauling by the distinguished author for the second edition".
In the spring, he fished the chalk streams of England with his father, (who was an expert trout fisherman and distinguished author and owner of the Derrydale Press).
The novel is about a young writer working on a biography of a distinguished Indian author and has, some say, startling similarities to reality and Patrick French's 1988 biography of VS Naipaul.
