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1. Author

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   The author is an individual, often an intellectual laborer, responsible for the origination and articulation of a coherent, fixed textual product. The concept fundamentally links the creative act with a specific, identifiable human source, although this linkage is frequently obscured by editorial practices or the requirements of patronage systems throughout history. While often conflated with the writer or scribe, the author possesses a distinct ontological status derived from the perceiv…