as in author
a person who creates a written work
a writer who is still trying to get published
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Dehydration: Giving Liquids at Home Jake Parks is a freelance writer and editor who specializes in covering science news.
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Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2025
Food writer Chris Dwyer has eaten at the world’s best restaurants.
—Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
Jennifer Ouellette Senior Writer Jennifer is a senior writer at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series.
—Ars Technica, 23 Mar. 2025
There had been a ton of conversations, and then became about setting the tent poles for the season for the writers.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Mar. 2025
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This year marks the sixth anniversary after the author and mom of four’s divorce from the Amazon founder became official in 2019, resulting in an approximately $36 billion settlement.—
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These are the questions author and entrepreneur Faisal Hoque asks in his book Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI.—
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Vara, a novelist and tech journalist, began experimenting with A.I. products in early 2021.—
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Set in a quaint New England colonial town, Allie & Andi follows a best-selling novelist (Shields) who forms an unlikely alliance with an aspiring writer to find the killer of a close friend.—
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Planes, rockets, and the spaces in between (2018) – at the time, the largest painting executed by Amy Sherald – was some three years in the making after the master painter and storyteller of the contemporary African American experience in the United States stretched the massive canvas.—
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Still, memory is the theme of several poetic passages of dialogue between Ren and her lover, and, as a professional storyteller, her personal experiences inevitably shape her work.—
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The poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier worked in Lowell himself for a time as editor of the Middlesex Standard and wrote his impressions of the city in his 1845 The Stranger in Lowell.—
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Pearl, a poet, writer and environmental justice advocate, will be involved in the Poetic Tuesdays series and help curate interactive writing workshops.—
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“Writer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writer. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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