While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

Thus, there is substantial debate regarding the identity of the book's author.

There was speculation about the identity of Currer Bell and whether the author was male or female and it heightened on the publication of novels by Charlotte's sisters: Emily's Wuthering Heights by " Ellis Bell " and Anne's Agnes Grey by " Acton Bell ".

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

We may be permitted here to take as proven the unity of the author of these three writings handed down under the name of John and his identity with the Evangelist.

The author focuses on problems of personal identity, particularly the role of the physical in determining personhood.

However, Oxfordians ( as adherents of the theory are usually called ) reject the historical record, often proposing the conspiracy theory that the record was falsified to protect the identity of the real author, and invoking the dearth of evidence for any conspiracy as evidence of its success.

The author is in fact web developer Steve Havelka of Portland, Oregon, whose identity became public during Pokey's early years.

The identity and date of the actual author of the work, referred to now as Pseudo-Ptolemy, remains the subject of conjecture.

" The audience of The Hive Queen is not aware of the identity of the author ( or that the work is factual and not speculative ).

Once, says author Eric Silver in The Book of the Just, " Two Gestapo men came to his office and demanded that he hand over a family of five who had bought forged Polish identity papers.

A pen name may be used specifically to hide the identity of the author, as in the case of exposé books about espionage or crime, or explicit erotic fiction.

For Jorge J. E. Gracia, the question of the identity of texts leads to a different question, that of author.

The author used a pen name, then later revealed herself under another pen name, before finally, prior to her death, revealing her true identity.

There are numerous theories concerning when the text was completed, and concerning the identity of the author or authors, but archeological recoveries have proven that the Art of War had roughly achieved its current form by at least the early Han dynasty ( 206 BC – AD 220 ).

Doe subpoenas are often served on online service providers and ISPs to obtain the identity of the author of an anonymous post.

** The case of the girl detective With the passing of Nancy Drew's first author, the mystery of the teenage sleuth's true identity only deepens.

* Uta Hagen, an actress and the author of Respect for Acting and A Challenge for the Actor, who emphasized the techniques of identity and substitution.

The Académie Goncourt awarded the prize to the author of this book without knowing his real identity.

Apart from author identity, there are several other factors which can explain the number of hapax legomena in a work:

In Lawrence, he succeeded where several before him had failed, at turning T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom into a cogent screenplay by turning the entire book on its head and making it a search for the identity of its author.

However, the date and origin of this document is questionable, given that the author disguised his identity behind Isaiah.

The more who author anonymously and " neither confirm nor deny " their authorship, this argument goes, the harder it is to confirm identity, and therefore the harder to intrude into anyone's political privacy.

In literature, the most common way to state that the identity of an author is unknown is to refer to them as simply " Anonymous.

While these names can take on an identity of their own, they are frequently separated from and anonymous from the actual author, and according to the University of Stockholm creating more freedom of expression, and less accountability.

This novel, subtitled " His Masquerade ", has won general acclaim in modern times as a complex and mysterious exploration of issues of fraud and honesty, identity and masquerade, but when it was published, it received reviews ranging from the bewildered to the denunciatory.

In Philosophical Explanations ( 1981 ), which received the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Nozick provided novel accounts of knowledge, free will, personal identity, the nature of value, and the meaning of life.

Among those familiar with his poetry, his identity became an open secret, but Scott persisted maintaining the façade, perhaps because he thought his old-fashioned father would disapprove of his engaging in such a trivial pursuit as novel writing.

Many critics and audiences have likened the film to a modern Western, while many others dispute this, or liken it to a crime novel that revolves around mistaken identity plot devices.

In The Left Hand of Darkness, for example, she implicitly explores social, cultural, and personal consequences of sexual identity through a novel involving a human encounter with an unpredictably androgynous race.

A character in the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise appears at a fancy-dress party as a member of the Vehmgericht, which allows him to wear a hooded costume to disguise his identity.

In 1937 he published his first novel, Ferdydurke, which presented many of his usual themes: the problems of immaturity and youth, the creation of identity in interactions with others, and an ironic, critical examination of class roles in Polish society and culture.

In the same year he published a volume of work which included the drama Ślub ( The Marriage ) and the novel Trans-Atlantyk, where the subject of national identity on emigration was controversially raised.

Other anxieties about unstable identity appear throughout the novel: Robert's relationship with George has homosexual overtones, especially considered in light of his attraction to Clara, George's sister, who is described as looking identical to George.

* In Adrian Tomine's graphic novel Shortcomings, Ben Tanaka, who struggles with his Asian-American identity, is from Corvallis, Oregon.

" It was in response to Linda's loss that we chose Tears ," he told the Phoenix, " because Flow My Tears is in fact a novel about grief, and not necessarily just about loss of identity.

Lady Lindsay was interested in the development of a national identity, and her novel Picnic at Hanging Rock-in Peter Weir's hands-was hailed as initiating a Renaissance in Australian film.

The novel also gives no indication that any of the couples will work through their problems ( the film, ambiguities notwithstanding, has a decidedly happy ending ), and the identity of the errant husband is different ( though not his rationale ).

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

At the very end of the novel, however, there is no doubt as to the identity of the perpetrator.

" Lahiri's ambivalence over her identity was the inspiration for the ambivalence of Gogol, the protagonist of her novel The Namesake, over his unusual name.

Her first novel, Typical American, attempts to redefine Americanness as a preoccupation with identity.

Also introduced in the storyline is a brief appearance of a dancer named Arica in the palace of Jabba the Hutt ... a character whose true identity is that of popular Star Wars Expanded Universe character Mara Jade, established to have been present there in the Timothy Zahn-penned novel trilogy starting with " Heir to the Empire ".

The story behind the novel, and the identity of the surgeon on whose life it is based, is mentioned in a 2007 article in the American Association of Neurosurgeons ' journal AANS Neurosurgeon, " Inspirations and Epiphanies "

A NRM may be one of a wide range of movements ranging from those with loose affiliations based on novel approaches to spirituality or religion to communitarian enterprises that demand a considerable amount of group conformity and a social identity that separates their adherents from mainstream society.

The contributor who wrote his column under the pseudonym of " A Man of Kent " in the February 10, 1921, issue of the Christian newspaper The British Weekly praised the novel but was perhaps overly generous in giving away the identity of the murderers.

* In the novel All the Rage by F. Paul Wilson, the fourth of his Repairman Jack novels, a rogue rakosh ( a bipedal shark-demon, first introduced in Wilson's novel The Tomb ) disappears into the New Jersey Pine Barrens, assuming the identity of the ( previously only legendary, it is implied ) Jersey Devil.

In her book, Redefining the Subject: Sites of Play in Canadian Women's Writing, Charlotte Sturgess suggests that Brand employs a language — in the short story collection Sans Souci ( 1988 ) and the novel In Another Place, Not Here ( 1996 ), in particular —" through which identity emerges as a mobile, thus discursive, construct.

Barbara Vine's novel The Chimney Sweeper's Boy has as a central plot device a moth of that name, more formally identified as Epichnopterix plumella, which represents the main character's transformation and identity.