"Outing" An Anonymous Author

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

So, there was a famously anonymous author Elena Ferrante who was outed recently.

Why? Because "inquiring minds want to know."

Personally, I'm a little disgusted but everyone has a different opinion. What do you think? Should the press have the right to stalk and then out the identity of non-criminals simply out of curiosity??

If I were her, I'd probably stop writing that series and kill the nom de plume.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainmen...

[Becky]

Anonymous, reclusive, keep-to-themselves authors are my favorite kind. I want to know them through their work, their writing, and their stories. And that is all.

Fuck that guy who thought he had the right to do that.

[MrsJoseph *grouchy*, Bad Girls Deadlift]

Becky wrote: "Anonymous, reclusive, keep-to-themselves authors are my favorite kind. I want to know them through their work, their writing, and their stories. And that is all.

Fuck that guy who thought he had the right to do that."

QFT!!

I so agree.

[Cheryl]

Becky wrote: "Anonymous, reclusive, keep-to-themselves authors are my favorite kind. I want to know them through their work, their writing, and their stories. And that is all.

Fuck that guy who thought he had ..."

+1 on both counts.

[Thaddeus]

I, boringly, agree with the consensus.

On a related note, a policing blog written by an officer had the identity of its author outed in the UK after a court order (Nightjar, I think it was). So the blog stopped, and the public stopped learning some (apparently, didn't read it myself) honest views of the good and bad of policing.