litterateur

litterateur
    n 1: a writer of literary works [syn: {essayist}, {litterateur}]
    

Litterateur \Lit`te`ra`teur"\ (l[-e]`t[asl]`r[.a]`t[~e]r"), n.
   [F.]
   One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a
   literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted litt['e]rateur
   after another." --C. Kingsley.
   [1913 Webster]
    

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "litterateur":
      academician, advertising writer, annalist, art critic, author,
      authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, bookman, classicist, clerk,
      coauthor, collaborator, colossus of knowledge, columnist, compiler,
      composer, copywriter, creative writer, critic, dance critic,
      diarist, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist,
      free lance, free-lance writer, genius, ghost, ghostwriter,
      giant of learning, humanist, humorist, inditer, learned clerk,
      learned man, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic,
      literary man, logographer, lover of learning, magazine writer,
      man of learning, man of letters, mastermind, mine of information,
      monographer, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist,
      pamphleteer, penwoman, philologist, philologue, philomath,
      philosophe, philosopher, poet, polyhistor, polymath, prose writer,
      pundit, reviewer, savant, scenario writer, scenarist, scholar,
      scholastic, schoolman, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer,
      storyteller, student, technical writer, walking encyclopedia,
      word painter, wordsmith, writer