Sentence:  Then epistolatory me was a foreign correspondent dispatching exciting cables and communiques , full of dash and wit and glamor , quoting from the books I read , imitating the grand styles of the <WSD>authors</WSD> recommended by a teacher in whose special , after school class I was enrolled . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)