author

The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition; or, one of the creators of a collaborative work.

The copyright of any original writing belongs initially and properly to its author.

Have you read any Corinthian authors?

The initial owner of the copyright to a work, especially a work made for hire or a work of corporate authorship.

The author named on the copyright registration for the Android robot is Google Inc.

Someone who writes books for a living.

Principal; the primary participant in a crime.

We hear […]of fratricidal murders, and stern reprisals on their authors.

Accomplices of a crime or an offence shall incur the same punishment as the authors of such a crime or offence, except when the law will have disposed otherwise.

One's authority for something: an informant.

Let me inform you en passant, Ladies, that those Villains the Heathens, as my Authors tell me, (and I thought it wou'd^([sic]) not be amiss to communicate such a nice Observation to this House) used to call our Saviour Chrestus, and not Christus, by way of Contempt and Derision […]

'Wanting the hat,' continues my author, Kirstie, whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one inspired, 'wanting guns, for there wasna twa grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepons than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road.

To create a work as its author.