author vs Vonnegut

author and Vonnegut both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
author	Yes	No	Yes	No
Vonnegut	Yes	No	No	No

author (noun)	Vonnegut (noun)
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)	United States writer whose novels and short stories are a mixture of realism and satire and science fiction (born in 1922)
someone who originates or causes or initiates something

author (verb)	Vonnegut (verb)
be the author of