# author (person)

person who makes text

- Computed level: L8 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: author

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [text](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-text.written)

**Through:** the person makes text

**Novel properties:**
- authored work
- creative agency
- textual origin

## Examples
- J.K. Rowling wrote 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' in a Edinburgh café while living on state benefits. *(literature)*
- Linus Torvalds authored the first version of the Linux kernel, released in 1991 on comp.os.minix. *(computing)*
- Rachel Carson compiled 'Silent Spring' using government pesticide studies and biologist testimonies from 1958 to 1962. *(science)*

## Used by
- [blog](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-blog.online) (L9)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-author.person*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-author.person.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*