The phrase "a key author of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate someone who plays a significant role in the creation or development of a work, such as a book, article, or research paper.
Example: "Dr. Smith is a key author of the groundbreaking study on climate change."
Alternatives: "a principal contributor to" or "a major writer of".
He was a key author of the Conservative party's Low Carbon Economy green paper.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, the senior Republican on the aviation subcommittee and a key author of the bill, said, "I'm very disturbed that Secretary Mineta has already said he's not going to meet the 60-day deadline".
So when a key author of the "Patriot" Act – a law that did more to take us down this path than any others in recent times – says he's upset by what's going on and wants to dial back the law, be prepared for him to change his mind, for the worse, under the next Republican president.
A: As Nicholas Kelley, research associate at CIDRAP and a key author of the report, explained in a recent ScienceLIVE chat, "[O]ne of the greatest challenges facing the development of new novel-antigen, game-changing influenza vaccines is the perception that our current vaccines are good enough".
A key author of financial regulatory reform is fighting back against a powerful chorus of critics.
Even Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, a key author of the Patriot Act, was appalled.
Sanders soon figured out that he and almost all other Congress members had been tricked into providing a blank check for the marketing of bogus collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps made legal by the legislation, of which a key author was Gary Gensler, the former Goldman Sachs partner recruited by Clinton to be undersecretary of the treasury.
Top Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a key author, have been working to bring Republicans on board.
"There are three factors contributing to this change," said Wendy Wong, a research associate at Pew and the key author of the report.
There is conflicting evidence as to who was the key author of the 7 October note, with Thompson describing Adams as "one of the main authors".
The moment that made headlines was when Sen. Max Baucus, the key author of the health-care law, fretted that the rollout would be "a huge train wreck". We'll get to that in a minute.
