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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Why? I certainly don't google every author I read, and unless there's a photo of the author included in the book, I generally don't have any idea about their age, race or even gender (after all, they might use a pseudonym). I learn about authors' egregious misdeeds only when I stumble upon someone mentioning them (which doesn't happen often, because I rarely use social media and visit only a couple of forums regularly, so the hullabaloo must be really big for me to know about it. Like it was in MZB's case). Why is it so hard to believe that many people just don't care all that much what sort of person the author is?
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I agree with this and have been in the same boat. I also get the same accusation when I've brought this up. When having to go through my ratio (based on a challenge prompt on BookRiot), I had to go and look through all my books read, google the author's name to try to find information about them or a picture, because I honestly had no clue on the race of most of them. An exception would be top favorites where they have their pictures online, but a lot of authors now use graphics or drawings of themselves so I can hardly tell. It's easier to keep up with and notice if you don't read a high volume or actively look. I'm trying to be more observant these past 2 years, but I have always chosen the books on their back cover blurb or reputation as a recommendations, or sometimes sales when browsing websites. I don't know what most authors look like or much about them unless something unusual is brought to my attention by someone else, like a Twitter storm that mentions the cases I've posted as examples in this thread.
Either way, it is something I've realized I do need to pay more attention to.