I'm trying to figure out what genre or category The Author belongs in. Can you help?

Many years ago, a professor told me that The Author was literary fiction and I've stubbornly been categorizing it as that even as I've become increasingly unsure that's where it belongs. What genre the novella is and what Amazon category it belongs in have been giving me trouble since I first made it available and I'm still not sure that I have it right. I didn't care about genre when I wrote it but now that I've made it available to the public, it's an issue that comes up again and again.

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