Point and Shoot, Florida (YU)-\Herman Melville had "Writer" put on his tombstone.

Country music singer-songwriters call themselves writers.

Graffiti artists call themselves writers.

To Heap, a writer was a writer, not a graffiti artist or a songwriter.

In fact, a writer was a novelist.

In fact, he advanced the form.

Truman Capote wrote a nonfiction novel, but he didn't include poetry, screenplays, book and movie reviews, and letters to friends, editors, critics, and so forth. Even John Dos Passos, in U. S. A., didn't do that.

Heap did.

Heap was a writer.

A writer's writer.

A reader's writer, the right kind of reader.

Larry was a writer's reader.

Heap was blessed.

That's an inside joke.

When Larry and Hazel went to Texas, the people who helped out the Hurricane Katrina refugees kept talking about how blessed everyone was.