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Why is there such a complaint? Anonymity is a privilege of the author, isn't it? There are authors who remain anonymous even to this day, one I know is B. Trav
by sn41 8y ago
Why is there such a complaint? Anonymity is a privilege of the author, isn't it? There are authors who remain anonymous even to this day, one I know is B. Traven, the author of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The precise authorship of individual articles in the Federalist papers is unknown. Also, I believe, if you really want to go that far back, the author of Ecclesiastes is not identified.
And then there are known but reclusive authors. J. D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy are modern hermits.
Authors are entitled to their privacy. Why should we pry?
- jacquesm 8y agoThey pry because breaking the anonymity is a scoop that they just can't resist. It's human nature to be curious, to be curious about something that people don't want you to know brings eyeballs and media and eyeballs go together like cows and manure.
- superflyguy 8y agoSalinger has certainly got this reclusive business down to a t - nobody's seen or heard anything from him for a good 8 years now.
- Veen 8y agoIt’s easier to avoid appearing in public when you’re dead.
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoTell that to Carrie fisher
- twic 8y agoThomas Pynchon is the poster child for this. Well, not exactly the poster child, but you know what i mean.