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The Underground Lectures: ’A strong dash of herself’: Golden Age Mystery Writers and their Fictional Alter Egos

If readers would traditionally ignore the authors themselves when reading a book, how does that experience change when a version of the author themself is a character?

The Underground Lectures: ’A strong dash of herself’: Golden Age Mystery Writers and their Fictional Alter Egos

About The Underground Lectures: ’A strong dash of herself’: Golden Age Mystery Writers and their Fictional Alter Egos

The Underground Lectures:
“A strong dash of herself”: Golden Age Mystery Writers and their Fictional Alter Egos
Sarah Gulick, Writer

What did Golden Age mystery writers think of themselves and their work? In many novels, the authors included proxy versions of themselves as side characters, and ways that they treated their alter egos depended on the author and the novel. Who is having more fun, and who is revealing more about themselves and their work: Agatha Christie writing a version of herself who can never guess the murderer and complains about fans? Or Dorothy Sayers, taking alter ego and her writing seriously? If readers would traditionally ignore the authors themselves when reading a book, how does that experience change when a version of the author themself is a character?

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