Definition of Author:

• The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). This can be short or long, fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, technical or literature; in particular it is a profession (doing this for pay).
• An author is someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
• writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
• The person or organization that originally created a document.
• The writer of a book or article. The author may be one person, several people, or a "corporate body" such as a government agency, professional association, or company.
• The person chiefly responsible for the creation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work.
• Person or persons primarily responsible for creating a work product
• The person who is responsible for the writing and intellectual content of a book or article. Two or more persons collaborating on a work are called joint authors.
• The writer(s) of a book, essay, short story, novel, play, poem, etc., whose name is usually given on the title page of the published edition. In library catalogues, the term is used in its broadest sense to include editor, playwright, director, composer, performer, artist, creator, etc.
• means the person who wrote the text of the resource
• The person(s) or group responsible for creating, sponsoring or writing a book or other publication. Authors may be editors, compilers, artists, composers, and photographers.
• The writer of a book or ARTICLE. Usually this is a person (or several people), but it can also be a government agency, a symposium, a company, or other group that does not necessarily give the name(s) of the people who actually wrote the work. Such an author is referred to as a Corporate Author

Biographies of Famous Authors:

• Jeffrey Archer
• Sidney Sheldon
• John Grisham