Author (disambiguation)
Author refers to:
- The author a written work such as a book or article, that is, the person who created (or is creating) it.
- The creator of a piece of music. The sole fact of creating a sequence of notes, even if they are not written on paper, might give someone the title of author of a melody, chords sequence or arrangement.
- Someone who originates or causes or initiates something.
- To generate or develop an educational resource
- In literary theory, the author function is the writer of a work as seen by the reader. Each work by the same author has a separate author function, and each work by numerous or unknown authors has a single distinct author function.
- In biology, the author of the scientific name of a taxon is the person or team who first makes the name available by publication and description.
- A putative author is the author of a work as defined by the work rather than the real author. An example is The Dice Man, supposedly written by Luke Rhinehart, who is in fact a fictional character in the book. Another example is the series of novels collectively called The Flashman Papers. Putatively, the Flashman Papers are written by Harry Paget Flashman, who first appeared in the nineteenth-century novel Tom Brown's Schooldays, and in the Papers, Flashman recounts a life spent behaving as one might expect a bully, coward and lecher to lead. The actual author, George MacDonald Fraser, claims tongue in cheek that all he does is correct "Flashy's" spelling, and deplore his conduct.
- Additionally, in webcomics, the term "author" generally refers to a self-insert of the comic's creator. The Author is usually given highly illogical and nigh-infinite powers over the comic and everything in it, automatically turning the character into a Mary-Sue/Gary-Stu. As such, the practice of using the Author as a character is frowned upon by many.
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