contemporary author
Living literary creator
A contemporary author is a writer who is currently living or who produced work in the recent past—typically within the reader's own lifetime.
The term distinguishes current writers from historical or classical ones: She studies contemporary authors rather than Victorian novelists.
What counts as contemporary shifts with each generation.
- bookBound written work
- debut novelAuthor's inaugural long fiction
- fictionImagined narrative work
- literary fictionProse emphasizing craft and depth
- short storyBrief prose fiction
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