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Originally Posted by Catlady
So by your definition, we are all authors. This devalues the word so much as to make it meaningless.
We're all authors if we write an e-mail, we're all singers if we warble in the shower, we're all artists if we doodle on a scratch pad, we're all decorators if we move the living room sofa a few feet this way or that, we're all CEOs if we manage a household. It's silly and pointless.
It's only if you actually make money doing the particular job that you can anoint yourself with the title and have it mean something.
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So you are saying that someone who is only published after death and makes no money while alive was not an author when alive? A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole is one of thousands of examples, and maybe Stieg Larsson? of posthumously published authors or are/were they as the made no money themselves?
I don't think making money is the best criteria although I think a good or great author should.
Helen