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The phrase "author for the first time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a particular work or piece of writing is being published or presented by an author for the first time.
Example: "This novel marks the debut of the author for the first time, showcasing their unique storytelling style."
Alternatives: "first-time author" or "debut author".
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The process of becoming a published author for the first time holds only a few mysteries.
The Obscene Publications Act criminalised the intent of the author for the first time, asking: did the author intend to inflame improper passions?
According to Dahl's biographer, Donald Sturrock, his editor was so dismayed by the manuscript that the author, for the first time in his career, had to beg him for a response.
In America, bumper stickers, a cookbook and Charlton Heston promoted his fame; here, the British Library honoured a living author for the first time ever by publishing a bibliography of his work.
THE GOOD LIST: Six novels, three marriages and two decades since his publishing debut, Jay McInerney hits a new milestone this week: he becomes a New York Times best-selling author for the first time.
Also in 1965 Strauss's The Political Philosophy of Hobbes was published, with a new preface by the author, for the first time in German.
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To the best knowledge of the authors, for the first time, the change in the dominant CL mechanism is reported.
The American legal thriller writer Grisham entered the chart of "most donated" authors for the first time this year, in joint fourth place with McCall Smith.
With the Booker prize accepting entries from American authors for the first time in the award's its 45-year history, the industry seems resigned to the prospect of Britain's major literary prizes winging their way across the Atlantic and of British authors struggling for attention in the face of the American juggernaut.
The existing publishers have responded by, um, offering online sales data to their authors, for the first time.
Experimental realization of photonic structures exhibiting large area 2D Thue-Morse arrangement has been recently reported by the authors for the first time to our knowledge [29].
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