The phrase "authors chart" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a chart or diagram that displays information about authors, such as their works, genres, or contributions to literature.
Example: "The authors chart in the presentation highlighted the most influential writers of the 20th century."
Alternatives: "authors diagram" or "authors graph".
In relating the press coverage of monarchy and celebrity, the authors chart the gradual decline of deference and the creation of a celebrity culture that can be seen as some kind of democratisation of fame.
The model was able to explain 85 percent of the observed variation in the annual growth of national health spending, as is illustrated in the authors' chart, which depicts the actual and the predicted growth rate in nominal health spending.
Champions of children's writing can also point to the "most-borrowed authors" chart, in which six of the top 10 places are taken by children's authors, led by Daisy Meadows, the collective pseudonym of the Rainbow Magic writers.
The authors chart the deteriorating relationship between Mr Cameron and Steve Hilton, the strategy guru who left No 10 this week for a year's sabbatical in California and is unlikely to return.
In a fairly concise survey, the authors chart the shifting interpretations of the concept of heredity from the early modern period through to the present.
Examining political advertisements, news coverage, ad watches, and talk shows in Los Angeles, Boston, Winston-Salem, and Fargo/Moorhead, the authors chart the impact of different information environments on citizens and show how people developed images of candidates over the course of the campaign.
When the study's authors charted the links in graphic form, they came up with a picture of non-interaction — a dense scribble on one side, a dense scribble on the other, and only the thinnest strands connecting the two.
Third, in spite of Aristotle's influence, medieval authors charted new courses, which often went contrary to Aristotle's explicit views; we need only think of the number of categories, for example.
JK Rowling, however, only makes 43rd place in the author charts; she simply hasn't written enough books yet to trouble the Pattersons and Wilsons of this world.
Widening his scope from the standard focus on the fifth century B.C., the author charts the religious, political and social history of the Acropolis from the Neolithic period to the present.
In a work of "comic sociology," the author charts the rise of the bourgeois bohemian, a caste that blended the countercultural 60's and the acquisitive, achieving 80's into a dominant social and economic ethos in the 90's.
