"Generally", I said. Authors have never been persecuted on mass for simply being authors. No one refuses jobs, housing, etc because one is an author. Gay peopl

"Generally", I said. Authors have never been persecuted on mass for simply being authors. No one refuses jobs, housing, etc because one is an author. Gay people have. Hardly any one keeps being an author secret. Of course individual authors have been persecuted for specific reasons.