The author field
This field identifies the person(s) responsible for creating the individual works included in a publication or collection (such as poems in an anthology or periodical, book reviews in a newspaper or journal, or tracks on a CD), as opposed to the person(s) responsible for creating that publication in its entirety (who will be listed in the author/editor field). Of course, the author and the author/editor are occasionally the same, as in the case of Houseboat Days, for which Ashbery is both the author of the individual poems within the collection and the author/editor of the collection as a whole; or in the case of the cinematic interpretation of Ashbery's work, Indelible, Inedible, for which the director Rudy Burckhardt is listed in the author and author/editor fields (and the title of the film is listed in both the title and publication fields).
The term "author" is understood to include writers, musicians, visual artists, interviewers/ees, contest winners, etc.
If you are doing an exact-phrase search by first and last name in the author field, you must enter the name exactly as it appears in the entry: last name, first name (comma included), for example, "Ashbery, John." An alternative would be simply an any-phrase or exact-phrase search for "Ashbery." Names in foreign languages, such as Hungarian or Japanese, that traditionally put the family name before the given name (i.e., Gergely Ágnes) will still include a comma between the two to facilitate searching.
This field will list multiple authors for publications that include collaborative material or for publications that include more than one relevant work (such as a single publication with several articles about Ashbery by different authors).
When there are multiple names in the author field, authors will be listed in the order in which their works appear or are credited in the publication, except that Ashbery will always be listed after other authors in order to facilitate alphabetization of the others' names when sorting results by the author field.
Tips on searching by author :
*For publications including work selected by or nominated by Ashbery, or relating to competitions judged by Ashbery, the persons selected, nominated or judged are listed in the author field; the editors, nominators, or judges are listed in the author/editor field. For example, for the Cheltenham Art Centre's 41 st Annual Award Exhibition, for which Ashbery was a juror, he is listed in the author/editor field, while the author field reads: Hide, Cynthia (1st prize); McCabe, Pamela (2nd prize); Schaefer, James B. (3rd prize); + various: 100 winners were selected in all.
*Translators are never listed in the author field.
*For interviews, both interviewer and interviewee are listed in the author field.
*For miscellaneous published remarks by Ashbery that appear within a text by another author, both Ashbery and the author of the work in question are listed in the author field (Ashbery's role in the text will be clarified in the notes field).
*For blurbs by Ashbery, Ashbery is listed in the author field (the author of the work for which the blurb was written is listed in the author/editor field).
*For works of cinema, music, theater and visual art that are based on, influenced by, or otherwise directly related to Ashbery or his work, the directors, composers, playwrights, and artists are listed in the author field, and frequently are also listed in the author/editor field. Cinematographers, producers, mixers, concert directors, etc. are usually listed in the author/editor field rather than the author field. Actors and musicians are usually listed in the notes field.
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