Literary Characters and Practitioners

• amanuensis
• anonymous
• antagonist
• antihero
• archetype
• author
• bard
• belletrist
• bibliognost
• bibliophile
• biographer
• bluestocking
• Boswell
• bouquiniste
• character
• chorus
• confidant
• confidante
• copywriter
• critic
• deuteragonist
• dramatis personae
• dramatist
• editor
• essayist
• fabulist
• farceur
• fictioneer
• ghost writer
• goliard
• hack
• hagiographer
• hero
• heroine
• journalist
• literati
• man of letters
• metaphrast
• nom de guerre
• nom de plume
• novelist
• pen name
• persona
• playwright
• poet
• poetaster
• poet laureate
• protagonist
• pseudonym
• screenwriter
• scribe
• scrivener
• secretary
• skald
• speechwriter
• stock character
• storyteller
• troubadour
• wordsmith
• writer