Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Litterateur \Lit`te`ra`teur"\, n. [F.]
   One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a
   literatus. `` Befriended by one kind-hearted litt['e]rateur
   after another.'' --C. Kingsley.

Source : WordNet®

litterateur
     n : a writer of literary works [syn: {essayist}]