author's name
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1.6
- noun
- The book's cover prominently displays the author's name.
- author's name and affiliation
- author's name and title
Examples
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All submissions become Army property and should be typed, double-spaced, with the author's name, signature, and mailing address.
Blog text (6) -
A cover page should show the title of the manuscript, the author's name(s), title, affiliation, and any acknowledgments.
Academic text (1993) -
The date is placed immediately after the author's name.
Academic text (2002) -
Kelly simply read the author's name.
Academic text (2013) -
There is no author's name on the cover.
Fiction book (2001) -
What's the author's name again?
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Though I didn't have an author's name, I had the title and that, I thought, should be sufficient.
Fiction book (2001) -
But I remembered the author's name and tracked down some info...
Blog text (32) -
Now, the first oddity that should have been evident was the absence of an author's name anywhere on the cover.
Fiction book (2001) -
Longtime readers of science fiction might recognize this author's name from the two stories he published in Galaxy magazine in the 1950s.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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5.1
A line in a newspaper or magazine giving the author's name
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1.9
The name of the person who wrote it
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4.4
A short line that gives the name of the photographer or writer
Surface Forms
Morphology
author's + name
The meaning 'the name that identifies the author' is directly derived from combining 'author' (the person who wrote the work) with 'name' (word(s) that identify someone), with the possessive -'s indicating ownership. This is a simple, cross-linguistically common possessive noun construction in English and would be immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Author's name comes from the simple habit of putting the writer's own name on a book or article so readers can see the author. That's why today author's name means the printed name that shows 'who wrote' the work.