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contributor versus author

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1joannasephine
Oct 26, 2009, 4:43 pm

Is there an accepted standard for when to use ‘author’ and when to use ‘contributor’ for anthologies?

(Apologies if this is the wrong place for this question.)

2lquilter
Oct 26, 2009, 6:00 pm

For anthologies I would always use "contributor" for people whose work has been anthologized, and "editor" for those who assemble the whole. I don't believe I would use "author" at all.