The phrase "an anonymous author" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a writer whose identity is not known or disclosed.
Example: "The article was published with contributions from an anonymous author, raising questions about its credibility."
Alternatives: "a nameless writer" or "an unidentified author".
Punishing an anonymous author is tricky.
It would certainly be interesting if it managed to unmask an anonymous author behind these particular strings of text.
Some versions contain a "continuation" to the year 948 written by an anonymous author more politically oriented than George.
Estelí Gomez's clear, bright voice alternated with the choir in "Iesu Dulcissime," also by an anonymous author.
He gained attention when he organized a campaign to discredit an anonymous author of a New Republic article criticizing the Iraq war and alleging misdeeds by troops.
That might be an epigraph for this dire novel, by an anonymous author whose authors note implies a connection to Obama but who is now thought to be a former McCain aide; — except that it lacks even psychodrama.
In his previous novel, "Budapest," Mr. Buarque, who has also written plays and film scripts, seemed to be carving out new territory and a new approach: a Brazilian ghostwriter in Europe for an "anonymous authors convention" ends up in the Hungarian capital, where he adopts a new identity and immerses himself in a new language and culture.
Obviously, I'm a great fan of Anon's work, but then, as a formerly anonymous author, I would say that, wouldn't I? Belle de Jour's History Of Anon will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Monday 31 December to Friday 4 January at 13:45 GMT.
"There is a possibility," the anonymous author confides, "that an explosion (or some other event) during the cremation of a radioactive corpse could produce a blow-back releasing radioactive smoke or fumes into the crematorium.
It is just that the pure Romantic cliche of its main argument – that some artists feel alienated from mainstream society – is nebulous enough to apply to almost anyone who lifts a paintbrush or a pen, including at a stretch the anonymous author of the Rupert Bear annual.
By then she was an established (though anonymous) author; Egerton had published Pride and Prejudice in January 1813, and later that year there were second editions of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
