Does reading books make you an intellectual?

My friend told this to me today. He was implying the name of an author but me and my friends were totally stumped and didn't know who he was talking about. Then he says "Oh, I'll just have to talk with (name of another friend) since he's an intellectual and knows this author" and yadda yadda. He's also black.

Bush says he reads 60 books per year.
Unless he's on a permanent vacation, that's total horseshit. What are they, 100-page-long pieces of fiction?