wordsmith

A shrewder wordsmith might have better navigated the thicket of legislative traps during the Arizona debate.

If only The Situation was as much of a ladies' man as he is a wordsmith.

Who is the wordsmith penning these rallying cries—Mike Dukakis?

Luntz is the wordsmith who coined the term "death tax" to replace the vague notion of an estate tax.

The person they had just heard was not, after all, a wordsmith.

Would that some wordsmith might e'en recoin these ancient mintages to fill the meager purses of our mouths!