Given the question: Eric Rücker Eddison -  Eric Rücker Eddison CB CMG (24 November 1882 – 18 August 1945) was an English civil servant and author writing under the name E.R. Eddison. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
The answer is:
Artist