author's name

1. 1.

   the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work

   Synonymswriter's name

   Broadername

   Part ofby-line

Questions about author's name

What does author's name mean?

author's name means "the name that appears on the by-line to identify the author of a work".

What is another word for author's name?

Close synonyms include writer's name. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is author's name a common word?

author's name is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.