Two different authors?

[Misfit]

I could be wrong, but I think the author of the book Palaces of Desire Karen Alexander is a different KA than the listing here. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

[[deleted user]]

I don't know how to deal with this, but I ran into the same situation yesterday with the works by James Stevenson. I think there are at least two, maybe three authors by this name, all lumped under 1 author entry. How do I go about untangling these kinds of entries?

[[deleted user]]

Examples from this author

Will You Please Feed Our Cat?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/68...

[Paula]

You need to disambiguate the authors

Go to the author profile and edit, half way down the page is a disambiguate link. Select that, enter the new name and select the works that belong to the new name.

http://www.goodreads.com/help/librari...

[Paula]

No 1 done - Misfit if you have any bio info on the book can you post and Ill update the author profile - Thanks

[Misfit]

Paula wrote: "No 1 done - Misfit if you have any bio info on the book can you post and Ill update the author profile - Thanks"

Thanks Paula. There's a brief blurb on the jacket so I'll put that in when I get home.

[[deleted user]]

Thanks, Paula. I've put this on my to-do list, because I believe this is a case of at least 3 different authors, and/or one author acting as editor. One problem with this is that WorldCat has these authors combined, too, so I have to do some digging. I'm pretty sure the children's author was not publishing back in 1923.

When I make progress on this, should I post again for more guidance?

[Paula]

If you need to yep - sometimes it is just good detective work :)

[[deleted user]]

I'll do the legwork, but like to know I can check before actually moving things around. :)