writer

One who writes, especially as an occupation.

A person who understands or practises the art of writing; one who is able to write; a penman.

One who does writing as a business; a professional scribe, scrivener, or amanuensis: used specifically in England of clerks to the former East India Company, and of temporary copying clerks in government offices; in Scotland, loosely, of law agents, solicitors, attorneys, etc., and sometimes of their principal clerks.

A person who writes what he composes in his mind; the author of a written paper or of writings; an author in general; a literary producer of any kind.

One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.