litterateur

noun /ˌlɪtəɹəˈtɜː/

1. A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.

   […]; and fourthly—as is evident upon the face of these pages—he is no professed litterateur, who can be starved by adverse criticism.

Where it comes from

From the French littérateur, from the Latin litterātor (“critic”). Doublet of literator.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry litterateur (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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