storywriter

[ stawr-ee-rahy-ter, stohr- ]

noun

1. a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
2. a person who writes news items for radio, television, or newspapers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of storywriter¹

1475–85 in sense “historiographer”; story ¹ + writer

Example Sentences

Schmidt teamed up with lyricist, director and storywriter Tom Jones on “The Fantasticks” as well as the Broadway shows “110 in the Shade” and “I Do! I Do!”

From Washington Times

Mosher says in the letter he hopes an aspiring storywriter finds the books “inspiring and helpful.”

From Washington Times

The bronze statue - a tribute to Danish storywriter Hans Christian Andersen - is perched on a rock in the harbour and attracts millions of visitors.

From BBC

Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what he has to say about other people's novels."

From Time Magazine Archive

I had noticed that the Young Girl—the storywriter, our Scheherezade, as I called her—looked as if she had been crying or lying awake half the night.

From Project Gutenberg