penman

/pen-muhn/US // ˈpɛn mən //UK // (ˈpɛnmən) //

笔者,笔友,笔杆子,笔杆子人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural pen·men.
- : a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist.
- : an expert in penmanship.
- : a writer or author.

Growing up in rural Canada, things were not promising for the young penman.
There are always the pamphlets and lampoons, and if you offend a penman they will kill you in a paper warfare.
Since that time the poor penman had never a place to call his own.
Until then, in Punch's phrase, "cricket was still a childish game and not a penman's serious study."
Some time after this, Mr. Penman became the minister, and was ordained February 3rd, 1836.
The author, the human penman, he said (according to Calderwood), was fated to die friendless in a strange land.