The phrase "a leading author" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is highly regarded or influential in their field of writing or research.
Example: "Dr. Smith is a leading author in the field of environmental science, having published numerous groundbreaking studies."
Alternatives: "a prominent author" or "a top author".
Murakami, who established himself as a leading author with his 1987 novel Norwegian Wood, is coaxed into a rare loquacious response to a question about the "global problem" of hate speech.
In this week's Meet the Author, Nick Higham meets Charlotte Grimshaw, a leading author from New Zealand.
In the Barbara Vine book, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998), the death of a leading author, Gerard Candless, leads to the discovery that almost every detail of his life had been a fiction.
The Highland cottage owned by the late TV presenter Jimmy Savile should be transformed into a mountaineering museum, according to a leading author and broadcaster.
He then moved to Ulaanbaatar, where he embraced communist ideas, and later returned to Inner Mongolia, where he became a leading author.
"If it had been binding," said Timothy Cooper, a leading author of the primary, "the media could not have written it off as a beauty contest".
Prof. Arpad Ivanecz, MD, PhD, Consultant Surgeon leading author.
In addition, readers now benefit from thematic special issues and double issues, in which a number of leading authors deal with a key theme in world prehistory, such as the origins of metallurgy (2009, volumes 22: 3 and 4), or the East Asian Neolithic (2013, in preparation).
Furthermore, slight differences in allele frequency between populations can influence the P-value at a certain SNP, leading authors to report their association within a single shared locus to a different SNP.
A cadre of leading authors and critics are on a roll over at Slate, dissing the great classics.
A group of leading authors, educationalists and child-development experts is calling on the government to introduce national guidelines on the use of screens, amid concern about the impact on children's physical and mental health.
