Title: Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet
Content:  Jurists, advocates and foreign lawyers may be granted associate membership of the Society. Associate members are entitled to use the designation: "Associate Writer to the Signet" with the postnominal letters, AWS. Prominent associate members include Harvey McGregor QC and the late former President of Poland, Lech Aleksander Kaczyński.
Title: L'Association
Content:  L'Association is a French publishing house which publishes comic books. It was founded in May 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas, and Mokeït. As of 2012, of the original founding members, only Konture continues to be affiliated with the company. L'Association is one of the most important publishers to come out of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics in the 1990s, and remains highly regarded, having won numerous awards at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. They were among the first to publish authors such as Joann Sfar and Marjane Satrapi, and also are known for publishing French translations of the work of North American cartoonists like Julie Doucet and Jim Woodring. Lapin is the group's magazine, which showcases many talents from the European alternative scene.
Title: SIGNIS
Content:  The members "Associates" are:
Title: Western Association of Writers
Content:  members of the Association, and these included Dr. David Starr Jordan, Eugene Fitch Ware, W. W. Pfrimmer, of Kentland. Indiana, who was often elected to some position on the official board, and Captain Lee O. Harris, editor of Home and School. Judge Alfred Ellison, of Anderson, Indiana, Judge D. P. Baldwin, and Joseph S. Reed, of Sullivan, Indiana were also pioneer friends of the Association, along with Col. Coates Kinney, of Norwood, Ohio, Soule Smith, of Lexington, Kentucky, Lawrence Mendenhall, of Cincinnati, John Uri Lloyd, author of “Etidorhpa," Dr. Lawrence C. Carr, of Cincinnati, R. Ellsworth Call, a scholar and authority on college affairs, Dr. John M. Crawford, counsel to St. Petersburg, and F. F. Oldham, 
Title: Free Association Books
Content:  Free Association Books is a project started in London in the 1980s. Bob Young and colleagues began a search using psychoanalysis to understand the problems of liberation. Other people became involved in the movement such as Andrew Samuels and Bob Hinshelwood and it grew quickly into a publishing house which produced books written by young psychoanalysts. Its house journal was Free Associations, which commenced publication in 1984, initially as "Radical Science 15". Its annual conference, "Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere" ran in conjunction with the University of East London. Authors who have published with them include Mary Barnes, Martin Bernal, Christopher Bollas, Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel (for English translations), Michael Fordham, André Green, Donna Haraway, Oliver James, Ludmilla Jordanova, Joel Kovel, Michel Odent, Paul Roazen, Adam Jukes and Eugene Victor Wolfenstein Free Association Books is now owned by Free Publishing Ltd and continues to publish a wide range of texts.
Title: L'Association
Content:  L'Association was founded in May 1990 by seven young cartoonists struggling to find an outlet for their work: Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas, and Mokeït (who left soon afterward). They named their venture "Atelier Nawak" (later the "Atelier des Vosges"), with the publishing branch being L'Association. One of L'Association's most distinctive works was the seminal black-and-white anthology Comix 2000 which includes work from over 300 creators from 29 countries in one 2,000-page hardcover volume. In addition to L'Association's founders, notable contributors to Comix 2000 included Jessica Abel, Edmond Baudoin, Nick Bertozzi, Émile Bravo, Mike Diana, Julie Doucet, Renée French, Tom Hart, Dylan Horrocks, Megan Kelso, James 
Title: Western Association of Writers
Content:  books: "The Lesson and Other Poems,” “The Cabin in the Clearing,” "Hoosier Bards,” and "Rhymes of Our Neighborhood.“ Instead of presenting one of his own poems at an Association meeting, Parker read a production by a young African-American, Paul Dunbar, whom the Association discovered when they held a meeting in Dayton, Ohio, and whose work William Dean Howells included in some columns in Harper's Weekly. Gen. Lew Wallace, soldier, scholar, statesman, diplomat, and novelist was a strong supporter of the Association. A man who contributed much to the success of the Association was Dr. James Newton Matthews, of Mason, Illinois, a co-founder and one of the most popular writers of the west. Various other writers were supporters 
Title: L'Association
Content:  down to mainstream publishers for encroaching on indie territory (the colloquial expression "trampling someone’s flowerbeds" means to step on someone's toes). The book coincided with three of the original founders and a few authors leaving L'Association: David B. left the group in spring 2005; Lewis Trondheim left in autumn 2006, followed shortly after by Stanislas and Killoffer. (At that point, L'Association's "editorial board" was dissolved, since it was originally composed of the company's founders.) In May 2011, after nearly six months of debate Menu announced his official departure from L'Association, leaving only Mattt Konture from the original group. Shortly afterward, co-founders David B., Killoffer, and Trondheim returned to the publishing house.
Title: Casting (performing arts)
Content:  can focus on each actor's performance. Casting Associates: Associates is the second chain of command in a casting office. Once a casting associate has worked for two years in the field of casting, they can apply for membership in Casting Society of America. Typically, the work under a Casting Director running pre-read sessions, prepping deal memos, and doing any calls to agents. Many associates begin to take on smaller scale projects so they can amass enough credits to move up in rank in CSA to a full-fledged Casting Director. Casting Director: Their job is to know a lot about a lot of actors, so that they can advise and present to the director the best of the existing possibilities. 
Title: Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers
Content:  The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) was organized in 1994 as the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics by a group of over 400 scholars troubled by what they saw as an over reliance on post-modern theory in the academy. Among the founding members were Robert Alter, Joseph Brodsky, Denis Donoghue, John Hollander, Alfred Kazin, Mary Lefkowitz, Richard Poirier, Christopher Ricks and Roger Shattuck, "a Who's Who of the American literary establishment." Since 1999, the association has published a review, Literary Imagination.

Question: Who is the author of The Associate?
Answer: John Grisham.
John Ray Grisham, Jr.
John Ray Grisham Jr.