man of letters n. 文人;作家

【例句】
He was a pure man of letters, untimely born in a world that had no need of letters.
他是个地道的文人，不逢时地生在一个不需要学问的世界里。

Shakespeare was perhaps Britain's greatest man of letters.
莎士比亚或许可以算是英国最伟大的作家。