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Originally Posted by Elerinna
The more I read, the more I realize that I enjoy knowing the lives of the authors I read, and knowing their gender. At the moment I am very interested in Toni Morrison and Jack Kerouac and their biography seems exciting to me 
But actually as said above I can create a database and generate a link related to the author, or use the link that simply refers to Wikipedia.
It is especially at the gender level that I would have liked to find a solution because I wanted to know what my proportion of male author was compared to that of female author |
My experience has been that many of the autobiographical snippets for authors are more fictional than their books. Much like Quoth, I once ran into a comment that over 25% of Harlequin/Mills & Boon author stable were male.
Using an author mentioned by theducks, I have read and enjoyed many books by Andre Norton some of which were originally published under her Andrew North pseudonym (the Solar Queen series for instance).
I do have one friend who insists that I should be reading 50% female authors to which my response for years has been that I care about their writing not their plumbing.