Types of Writer

adaptor agony aunt
amorist annalist
author authoress
bard best-seller
biographer chronicler
city editor co-author
columnist comedist
commentator continuator
contributor copywriter
correspondent crime writer
critic cub reporter
diarist draftsman
dramatist dramaturge
editor editress
encyclopedist epilogist
essayist evangelist
fabulist farceur
gagster ghostwriter
glossator glossographer
hack hackette
hagiographer herbalist
humorist hymnographer
journalist lexicographer
littérateur lobby correspondent
lyricist lyrist
memorialist Minnesinger
mythographer necrologist
newsman newspaperman
novelist pamphleteer
pastoralist playwright
poet poetess
Poet Laureate pressman
programmer prosaist
psalmist publicist
recorder remembrancer
reporter reviewer
rhymester scenarist
screenwriter scribe
scriptwriter skald
sob sister songster
songwriter sonneteer
speech-writer story editor
sub synoptic
synoptist tragedian
troubadour trouvère
war correspondent war poet
wireman wordsmith
writer-in-residence Yahwist