What Is an Author? Response

I think that the main point of this is essay is to convey that authors are not just writers of text or producers of a particular piece of writing. Instead, authors are an entity that is essential to the entity of the body of work that they produce. The point is that when an authentic author is concerned, the body of work represents more than just the labor of transferring one's thoughts from their mind to a sheet of paper. Additionally, an important theme that is explored in this essay is the question of authenticity and the process of attributing a body of work to a particular author and how the need for that process has evolved throughout history from not necessary at all to completely essential to the integrity of any published production. An author can be the creator of "theories", "traditions" and "disciplines" according to Foucault. An author is a dynamic word which acts as an umbrella to sub-categories of what an author CAN be; a novelist, artist, scientist, poet etc. As students, I think it is important for us to evaluate this perspective of what an author is in order to build the diversity of the works that we do and will produce.