A writer, by definition, is a person who has written a particular text. Writers do not have to be published like a journalist or a novelist. Anyone who has written a letter, a text message, or even class notes is considered a writer. I would consider all of the people of Shenandoah National Park who have letters printed in the Defending Honor chapter to be a writer. Majority of them use poor grammar and spelling mistakes as a result of their poor, nonexistent, or short-lived encounter with some sort of education. However, there are many well-known writers who were published before they even reached their fifteenth birthday. For example, a nine year old boy, Alec Grevan, published a book titled, How to Talk to Girls. Between February of 2008 and January of 2009, Alec appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien among others and even had his book make it to the New York Times bestseller list. He has gone on to publish three more books with his relatively diminutive education. There is no required curriculum you must take nor is there any education level you must reach in order to become a writer. Therefore, everybody from Shenandoah National Park as well as everybody in existence, can be considered a writer.
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