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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I will disagree. Classics do not just become classics after the author is dead.
Star Wars is a classic and the writers are not dead. The Harry Potter series is a classic and Rowling is not dead.
Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California are classic songs and most who worked on them are not dead.
There are many many more examples that could be given.
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I wasn't trying to say that a book has to wait that long to be a classic, just that a good many books we now consider to be classics are still read sometimes even centuries after the author has died while others that everyone raved about at the time are now forgotten on the shelves somewhere.