Authorial Snap


the practice of inferring information about an author from the habits, conversation or biography of their characters. this is especially marked in relation to first-person, confessional and/or debut novels.
“i just finished playing authorial snap with lindqvist’s let the right one in. oskar is such a shoe-in replacement for the author. wonder if he was bullied as a child too?”

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