>Because there was little biographical information available about its author, the debate hinged on one question: Who was Isabel Fall? And that question ate her

>Because there was little biographical information available about its author, the debate hinged on one question: Who was Isabel Fall? And that question ate her alive and >So what’s the worst that might have happened if, somehow, the “Attack Helicopter” detractors were right and the story was a secret reactionary text? Why did this matter? Why does this matter? I find peculiar and dangerous the idea that the author's biography matters. A story speaks to its reader, or doesn't, regardless of whether Isabel Fall or Adolf Hitler or Donald Trump or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders or Isaac Asimov or Robert Heinlein wrote it, or what motivated them to write it.