Bookwright

Origin

From book + wright.

Full definition of bookwright

Noun

1. A writer of books; an author.
• 1853, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, Mental Portraits; Or, Studies of Character, The Reviewer: , page 219:Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.