writer vs Nadine Gordimer

writer and Nadine Gordimer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
writer	Yes	No	No	No
Nadine Gordimer	Yes	No	No	No

writer (noun)	Nadine Gordimer (noun)
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)	South African novelist and short-story writer whose work describes the effects of apartheid (born in 1923)
a person who is able to write and has written something