The phrase "a dead author" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an author who has passed away, often in discussions about their works or literary contributions.
Example: "In her analysis, she draws heavily on the themes presented by a dead author, exploring how they resonate in contemporary literature."
Alternatives: "a deceased author" or "an author who has passed away".
Necklines are strained, curves are groped, and a dead author is abused.
Can't a dead author get a movie tie-in sales bounce?
Take for example, a case where a dead author left a widow, two living children, and three grandchildren by a third child who is dead.
IT takes a lot of audacity to reanimate a dead author -- or so the evidence of David Lodge's new novel about Henry James would suggest.
Not for the first time (The Aspern Papers, Possession), research into a dead author is made to enact the yearnings of the living.
It's a wonderful directory, replete with tips for pranksters-to-be ("Agent assignment: impersonate a dead author"), and well worth the read if you've missed out on some of their past improvisations.
If you could bring any dead author back to life to be the next laureate, who would it be?
In what is perhaps the first literary spat between a living and dead author, Will Self has infuriated the followers of George Orwell by describing the writer of the political classics Animal Farm and 1984 as a "supreme mediocrity".
This principle also applies where, for example, two joint authors executed a grant and one of them is dead; in order to effect a termination, the living author must be joined by a per stirpes majority of the dead author's beneficiaries.
The dead author is simply a better companion.
We're not in a new year yet, of course, but STC has opened two productions in the past fortnight alone: the first a loosely biographical play about a dead American author by a self-proclaimed mid-career, middle class Australian playwright, the other a revived translation of a turn-of-the-20th-century French classic.
