The phrase "author when he was" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing the author's past, but it requires additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "The author when he was a young man wrote several short stories that later gained recognition."
Alternatives: "the author during his youth" or "the author in his earlier years".
She was once found wandering naked in their city's downtown; on another occasion she tried to have sex with the author when he was 14.
Winkler said he could never have imagined becoming an author when he was a schoolboy, adding that he had not even read a book until he was in his 30s.
lThese are actual incidents investigated by the author when he was a police officer.
Beat historian Barry Miles, author of the newly published Call Me Burroughs, first met the author when he was living in Tangier, Morocco in 1964.
The author when he was smaller than he is now.
The book cover, a gigantic photo of the poet himself, also wishes to contribute its own unique data to your experience of the text that follows it: Namely, the appearance of the author when he was five or six years old and living in Belgium.
The dramatist Heiner Müller, who himself had issues with his political masters, pointed out that Wekwerth had protested against "political idiots" in the regime, and had, in particular, intervened in favour of the GDR author Volker Braun when he was was under fire from the authorities.
Knievel got his stage name, the author suggests, when he was tossed in jail (he was a juvenile delinquent, and a prolific thief) with a troubled man named William Knofel, whom the cops had nicknamed Awful.
One of them, Linda Wolfe, an author, knew Mr. Keller when he was still in New York.
Tells about William Faulkner, the author of "Sanctuary" when he was fired as postmaster of the University of Mississippi.
Last week in The New York Times, Maynard recalled her brief affair with Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger when he was 52 and she was an 18-year-old aspiring writer.
