The phrase "author out of" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express a situation where an author is no longer available or has been removed from a context, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "The author out of the project left the team scrambling for a replacement."
Alternatives: "author removed from" or "author no longer with".
The reclusive Thomas Pynchon might have shunned the National Book Awards last year, but organisers of the Kitschies are hoping the lure of a stuffed tentacle could bring the publicity-shy US author out of hiding after his multi-genre outing Bleeding Edge made the shortlist for this year's best novel prize.
It follows the author out of politics and into the newspaper industry for a couple of decades.
Sometimes a character just elbows the author out of the way and says, "I can handle this on my own".
Profits from the book lifted the author out of debtors' prison, but its contents landed him back in jail for obscenity.
I'm sure publishers groan when a writer producing a profitable series says they want to write one, but they also embrace them when they seem an opportunity to get an author out of a rut.
Its producers "have flushed this sly fox of an author out of his den of tropes and shown him up for the shamelessly feeling fellow he is," Doctorow said.
It would have provided financial benefits to authors of out-of-print books and made available a vast virtual library of those books.
One reason I liked "Thrilled to Death" is that it touched me in a nonintellectual way -- the author qua author stayed out of it.
A group of nine hundred writers signed an open letter that appeared in Sunday's Times, calling on Amazon to leave authors out of the contract dispute.
According to the 2011 Study of Open Access Publishing (SOAP), the APC is usually paid by the author's funding agency (59%) or employer (24%), not by authors out of pocket (12%).
