authorial

American  

[aw-thawr-ee-uhl] / ɔˈθɔr i əl /

adjective

1. of or relating to an author or to authors in general.

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Explanation

Use the adjective authorial for things that relate to the person who wrote a book, screenplay, or article. You give up your authorial control when you hand your short story over to an editor. If you pen a novel, you may choose to give your authorial voice to a narrator, allowing them the power to reveal all the background information you want your readers to know. And your ultimate goal, the message you hope to convey in your book, can be described as authorial intent. Authorial is from author and its Latin root, auctor, "trustworthy writer."

Example Sentences

The museum, in Turin, said it gave the prize in recognition of Spacey's "personal aesthetic and authorial contribution to the development of the art of drama".

From BBC • Jul. 26, 2023

That changed for me with the 2010 novella “Walks With Men,” which reframed that elusiveness, that opacity, by widening the authorial point of view.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2023

But, per the terms of my contract, all authorial data was encrypted and partitioned to prevent overlap between writers and publishing houses.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

Kimberly is the kind of oddball role that is Lindsay-Abaire’s authorial métier.

From New York Times • May 10, 2023

He was rather ruining the whole business of authorial genius for me.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green