: produced or released for distribution in a book, magazine, newspaper, etc.
citing a variety of published sources
The ghostwriter will write the article … and send it along to the physician, who may make some changes or simply sign it as written and submit it to a journal, usually scrubbed of any mention of the ghostwriter. … David says he rarely even sees the published articles he writes. Carl Elliott
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: having one's work published
a published poet/novelist
… a couple of published authors promised to introduce her to their agents. Hal Lancaster
In his three decades as a published writer, Andre Dubus produced a baker's dozen of books, mainly collections of short stories. John B. Breslin