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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Some folks can't separate the work from the author, and it works both ways.
Some ascribe a character's beliefs to the author's personal life even when the story makes then an antagonist, anti-hero, or outright villain. (S.M. Stirling's DRAKA series almost got him tarred and feathered.)
In other cases, perfectly fine stories get lionized until the author gives one interview too many or somebody close to them gets them branded as unsavory. Whereupon the author gets ostracized and the previously lionized books get flagged as trash, even post mortem.
Orson Scott Card and Marion Zimmer Bradley come to mind.
Oftentimes it is best not to know anything about the author and let the work speak for itself.
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True. I think the same thing happens with movies. You see someone in a given film and they play the part so well that you get the fictional world and reality mixed together.