its kind of like a news paper, you have the "writer" then you have many many many many "proof readers" then you have "editors" not sure what the difference between editors and proof readers are but i know there is one.
2 dictionary results for: copy editor Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This cop·y·ed·i·tor /ˈkɒpiˌɛdɪtər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kop-ee-ed-i-ter] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation -noun 1. a person who edits a manuscript, text, etc., for publication, esp. to find and correct errors in style, punctuation, and grammar. 2. a copyreader. 3. Also called slot man. the head copyreader on a newspaper. * http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/copy%20editor
e.g., Samuel Johnson
The writer or person/s who compile a dictionary is called a lexicographer.this is a person who wants to learn and study new words, in other words a smart person!!
a dictionary writer for the 15th century
A 19th-century writer.
Noah Webster
small dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
They are called screenwriters, or just writer.
A male writer is called a poet so maybe a female writer is called a poetress
An autobiography writer is called an autobiographer.
The words that make up a dictionary are called entries or lexemes.
A word or phrase defined in a dictionary is called an entry.
A lexicographer is the creator of a dictionary.
A writer of literary works is called an author or a novelist.