The debate has continued over the author's identity as the apostle, the brother of Jesus, both, or neither.

The composer of the Gospel of John seemed interested in maintaining the internal anonymity of the author's identity.

* The author's intended meaning, such as it is ( for the author's identity as a stable " self " with a single, discernible " intent " is also a fictional construct ), is secondary to the meaning that the reader perceives.

Many pen names are used to conceal the author's identity.

* What does the work tell the reader about the author's sexual identity?

* Conversely, how might the author's sexual identity affect different aspects of work?

The work is anonymous, although there has been extensive speculation on the author's identity.

Later commentators called the publishing of the book under an anonymous identity an effective marketing strategy that produced more publicity for the book, and thus more sales, without calling into question the author's actual inside knowledge.

In the present case his identity is made all the more baffling through the author's technical cleverness in selecting the part he is to play in the story ; and yet her non-committal characterization of him makes it a perfectly fair procedure.

" The work is an " albeit surreal, record of its own author's continuing identity crisis.

A Cologne edition of 1669 stated that the Marquis de Chamilly was their addressee, and this was confirmed by Saint-Simon and by Duclos, but, aside from the fact that she was female, the author's name and identity remained undivulged.

Literary critics, journalists and others were trying to discover the author's identity and were proposing more or less credible, sometimes fantastic hypotheses.

In his essay, Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity — her political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes — to distill meaning from the author's work.

Ideas are a professional author's " capital and identity ", and if a person's ideas are stolen it retards the pursuit of knowledge.

Jeffrey A. Tucker, associate professor of English at the University of Rochester, comments in his critical study, A sense of wonder: Samuel R. Delany, race, identity and difference, that Hogg " gave expression to the author's hostility toward a heterosexist society, an anger that had no socially constructive outlet prior to the modern Gay Rights movement.

" Besides the questions about the author's identity, the book is known for a simplistic plot that used a lot of stereotypical imagery.

The Dominican-American author's novel addresses many themes, including young adult sexuality and national identity, also present in Obejas ' work.

Next he published an outspoken criticism of Austria, published first in German, then adapted in English ( Austria as it is, or, sketches of continental courts, by an eye-witness, 1828 ) which was published anonymously in London ; this book offended the Austrian authorities, making him a wanted man in that country, but its author's identity remained unknown.

In later editions, the author's real identity was revealed.

The third section is followed by a brief summary of the Golden Summary, a statement of the author's identity and an eloquent prayer directed to the " spirits of the Khans descended from mighty Tengri ".

The first indication of the author's identity appeared in Thomas Heywood's Apology for Actors ( 1612 ), where Heywood assigns the play to Kyd.

He tries to maintain an image as a rough and tough fox cub, even to the point where he adopts an alternative identity as Damien Dog Foxioli ; the Cubfather ( this is the author's comic take on Marlon Brando's character Don Vito Corleone in the movie The Godfather ).

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

Kiernan has argued from an examination of the manuscript that it was the author's own working copy.

In one such incident involving the 1972 explosion and sinking of the tanker, the Coast Guard photographed the wreck and recovered several bodies, in contrast with one Triangle author's claim that all the bodies had vanished, with the exception of the captain, who was found sitting in his cabin at his desk, clutching a coffee cup.

Carmilla was first published in the magazine The Dark Blue in 1872, and then in the author's collection of short stories, In a Glass Darkly the same year.

Each author's detective, also female, was brainy and physical and could hold her own.

" Don Quixote " had been growing in favour, and its author's name was now known beyond the Pyrenees.

The term masochism was later derived from the author's name by Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the latter's 1886 forensic study Psychopathia Sexualis.

Traditional accounts of the author's life are found in many commentaries and include details such as these: He was born on Salamis Island around 484 BC, the son of Mnesarchus, a retailer who lived in a village near Athens.

The disciple Matthew was probably honoured within the author's circle, as the name Matthew is more prominent in this gospel than any other.

The film was Hawks's final collaboration with longtime friend William Faulkner before the author's death.

Since " Barbellion " was the real author's pen name, many reviewers believed Wells to have been the true author of the Journal ; Wells always denied this, despite being full of praise for the diaries, but the rumours persisted until Barbellion's death later that year.

The author's paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored participant in the Boston Tea Party, who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem " The Last Leaf ".

His novella Billy Budd, Sailor, unpublished until 33 years after the author's death, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by Peter Ustinov.

Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.

The Preface of Kubla Khan began by explaining that it was printed: " at the request of a poet of great and deserved celebrity, and as far as the author's own opinions are concerned, rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the ground of any supposed poetic merits ".

More recently she has been the focus in Malinche's Conquest by Ana Lanyon, a non-fiction account of the author's research into the historical and mythic woman who was Malinche.

This method was applied to Classical Studies and to medieval texts as a way to reconstruct the author's original work.

Much controversy was aroused on the subject, and the author's view was subsequently to some extent modified.

While many structuralists first thought that they could tease out an author's intention by close scrutiny, they soon argued that textual analysis discovered so many disconnections that it was obvious that their own experiences lent a view that was unique to them.

The surname Stark was later used in King's novel The Dark Half, in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, " George Stark ", comes to life.

When Pete Exline told them about the homework in a baggie incident, the Coens thought that that was very Raymond Chandler-esque and decided to integrate elements of the author's fiction into their script.