authors

     

An author is efined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and as "one who sets forth written statements" in the Oxford English Dictionary. The first entry suggests that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. The second entry goes on to clarify that, when using the term author, the "anything" which is created is most usually associated with written work.

Trivia about authors

  • Similar to fish, this game is played with special cards featuring pictures of writers
  • A popular "Jeopardy!" category, or a children's game with pictures of writers on the cards