purported author

In some cases, the purported author of the work is also a fabrication.

They tie characters to plot and both to their purported author.

In 2013 the purported author of the letter surfaced in Beijing.

The purported author is alive and accessible in Hanoi, where he heads an official veterans group.

Dorrell then mentions that the purported author, Willobie, had recently died.

Zengzi, the purported author of the Great Learning.

Literary forgery is often difficult to refute because the purported author is usually deceased.

The play's purported author is Scriblerus Secundus who is also a character in the play.

Its purported author was a Casper, Wyo., woman, whose photo also was posted.

The purported author, Charles Rund, a poll taker, vigorously denied that he had written it.

Police never did find the purported author of the letter, signed “Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.”

The purported author, Paul Morrison of Deerfield Beach, Florida, was never found.

Dave Rhodes, purported author of the electronic chain letter "Make.Money.Fast"

He contacted purported authors of the letters to verify their identity and solicit their permission to print the epistles.

Homer is the name given to the purported author of the Ancient Greek poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.

In addition to being the purported author of nursery rhymes, Mother Goose is herself the title character of one such rhyme:

Ossian, the narrator and purported author of a series of poems published by James Macpherson in the 1760s, is based on Oisín.

The British Museum stated in 1970 that it had "proved impossible" to identify Fra Giovanni, the purported author of this letter.

The purported author is thus James, the brother of Jesus, but scholars have established that the work was not written by the person to whom it is attributed.

He is also the purported author of The Court and Character of King James I, although this attribution has been challenged.

Three Strategies of Huang Shigong - another work by another purported author/editor of the Lingqijing.

The purported author was Penelope Ashe, who as the jacket copy told it was a “demure Long Island housewife.”

And because no one except the purported author and a few other managers will ever read it, no one outside the corporation need know that nothing much is going on.

The protagonist (i.e. the purported author of the diary) is called Kaspar von Schmerzburg ("Schmerz" being the German for pain).

The poems date to the second half of the 13th century, and if their purported author is historical, he would be the first documented Jewish poet of the German language.