"He can be a very attractive writer - above all, in the understated modesty of his authorial presence."

Hemingway also gives an objective view to the story, an "effaced authorial presence"; his minimalistic approach influenced American writing.

At least Morris isn't pretending, like most traditional biographers, that he is in command of some untainted objectivity beyond authorial presence or beyond fiction.

But the passage hides this relationship in a structure of interplay between authorial presence and absence.

And then came the finished product: smooth, seamless, deceptively simple, with the authorial presence barely visible.

In "Theodore Rex" there is neither room nor need for an "authorial presence at all."

Stories by a doctor whose understated authorial presence and gift for description are strong enough to sustain an occasionally underconstructed narrative.

Children will write the stories they hear, and will also work to understand their role as historians, interpreters and how to manage their authorial presence.

She could have gone further in asserting her authorial presence, as she might have were this a film rather than a play.

Her authorial presence can be annoyingly intrusive, like a therapist imposing analysis on a patient who is barely aware of having a problem.