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A god who builds whole worlds, then murders the characters readers love most.
means A person who writes a book, story, or other text — and, by extension, the originator or creator of anything.
from From Latin auctor, 'one who causes to grow, originator, founder,' from augere, 'to increase' (the same root that swells into augment and auction). It reached English through Old French autor; the silent 'h' was later smuggled in by scribes who wrongly assumed a Greek connection, and it stuck.
- Word root
- From Latin auctor, meaning one who makes things grow
- Death clause
- Copyright outlives them by 70 years
- Ghost trade
- Many bestsellers were written by someone uncredited
- Pen names
- Bronte sisters first published as men
- Output
- Some authors wrote over 500 books
william shakespeare — english playwright and poet who wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets, 1564-1616
jane austen — english novelist who wrote pride and prejudice, emma, and five other major novels, 1775-1817
james joyce — irish modernist who wrote ulysses, considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, 1882-1941