We all have our favourite authors. Writers whose works we revere and cherish and connect with parts of our own lives. We build up images in our minds of what we think they’re really like.
But how skewed are these subjective projections? How far removed are they from what an author’s like? Even with social media, it’s difficult to discover what an author’s really like, but not terribly so. Some authors are heavily linked to their Twitter or Facebook, others interact with fans on a regular written level, and some shun these ideas completely.
So does finding out what an author is like as a person affect your perception of them as an artist, and could it affect your attitude toward future works and the author themselves?
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Fiction, Amongst Other Things 