A person who writes, or produces literary work.
'writer' is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English. You can use it to refer to someone who writes professionally or someone who has written a particular work. For example: "The writer of this novel has won multiple awards for her work.".
Molly Blake is a freelance writer.
Diana Treviño Benet is a writer.
While Vargas has been an immigrant activist for several years, he has been a writer and reporter for more than a decade.
Alex Petridis won record review writer of the year and music features writer of the year.
Birdman, arguably, has a solemn dimension to it, but not really The Grand Budapest Hotel, despite being inspired by a writer (Stefan Zweig) who famously committed suicide in despair at the rise of the Nazis.
Gwyneth Paltrow's coming … she's going to see my bits!!! Michelle Olley's performance diary The late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen induced writer Michelle Olley to lie naked in a glass box in 2001 as the coup de theatre of a fashion show.
Part of the answer, says writer Carol Russell, of the Fresh Voice Initiative, is industry specific.
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