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Old 07-21-2009, 09:53 AM   #35
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Yeah, I agree with BenG, I always understood contemporary author or works to mean the author is alive and writing in our era, but that doesn't mean the place of the work has to take place in our time.

To say "contemporary works" is not the same to say a "work that takes place in contemporary time".

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One definition I found that also makes sense is that they author sets the story in the same time frame in which he lives. So if we add that to an author that is still alive I think that is a pretty good definition?

Anyway, please see my previous message.

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