Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. People (hierarchy name)
4. people (agents)
5. [people by occupation]
6. [people in the humanities]
7. [people in literature and related occupations]
8. [people in literature]
9. authors

Anotations

Scope note:

People who write accounts of events they have experienced in their lives. For people who write daily entries of their activities, use "diarists." For people who write accounts of their lives, but as a biography rather than as an episodic account, use "autobiographers."