What is an Author?

Michel Foucault's essay 'What Is an Author?" expands on the ideas of authorship. He states that authoring is  "f individualization in the history of ideas, knowledge, literature, philosophy, and the sciences."  Michel also focuses on the themes of writing: that the true author does not even matter, and the relationship of writing to death. He uses a metaphor to connect writing to the unfolding of a game because games can not be predicted or controlled, along with writing.

 Michel focuses on the aspect of death, which was considered a theme. An author's work will never vanish after death because they have left a piece of their own work on the earth that they put time, effort, and creativity into. He does not want a text to be judged solely by whom the author is or was but by the content in their work.Michel believes that a well written out thesis is the key to ones's quality of writing because it helps to establish the relationship between the reader and the author. The way you write your own thesis can have an effect on the reader because it will establish the whole rest of the paper

A question arose while I was reading this text, If authorship is in almost everything, why does Michel only expand on books? I further read on to only prove my point more and make me question his own validity on the subject because he did not expand on any other forms of authorship besides books.
I think Michel wrote very well  and elaborately explained what his view on being an author is. Although the essay was quite lengthy and had a wide vocabulary, it accomplished his point. I find myself that I will tend to judge a book based on who the author was. If I followed Michel's advice, I would have a broader expansion without being judgmental.