What is an author?

Michel Foucault's text, "What is an author?" really helped me think more deeply about the meaning of an author.  Throughout his text he is expanding on the relationship between text and author. Through reading Foucault's article I felt he did an incredible job in comparing and contrasting, showing the relationship between author and text with multiple different examples to provide the reader with a clear understanding of what he was stating. Foucault clearly stated his purpose/claim and provided plenty of credibility through his own knowledge, background and citing.  Foucault says in his text that only certain texts can qualify as having an author, the rest only have writers.  This brought me to come up with the analytical question of, what distinguishes an author from a writer? Is a writer just one of many types of authors?  After reading the essay, I cam to my own conclusion for my analytical question.  A writer is a person who writes any literary piece.  An author is the person who originates the thoughts or ideas, the content of the work being  communicated to the audience.  Then again, I do believe that an author and writer can exist as one in some cases.  Over all, Foucault did a wonderful job by getting me to really think about these concepts through his compare and contrast techniques of author and text in "What is an author?"