Posted on 01/23/2023 4:47:46 PM PST by simpson96
In 2018, former US president Bill Clinton coauthored a novel with James Patterson, the world’s bestselling author. The President is Missing is a typical “Patterson”: a page-turner of a thriller, easy to read, with short chapters and large font.
Patterson is accustomed to collaborative writing – much of his success can be attributed to novels he has written with others.
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Using ‘stylometry’ to establish authorship Using a technique called “stylometry”, it can be established that Patterson probably wrote most of The President is Missing. Stylometry uses computers to statistically analyse the frequency of words in a text. It can be applied to a variety of research purposes, most notably, authorship attribution.
Stylometry is useful when a novel’s authorship has been questioned because every individual’s writing style possesses subtle indicators – or “authorial fingerprints” – which can be used to determine who is most likely to have written a particular piece of work.
Authorial fingerprints are developed by analysing a writer’s solo-authored works, which can then be applied to collaborative efforts (luckily, Bill Clinton has a few books attributed to him alone).
So, what happens when stylometry is applied to a more recent novel coauthored by Patterson and Clinton? In June 2021, a second political thriller, The President’s Daughter, was published by the pair. Once again, it appears that Patterson did nearly all of the writing.
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YES!
I thought the author of “It Takes A Village” came out and said she was the author and even showed the media a 100 thousand-dollar check from hillary, but no one was interested.
It would be interesting to apply ‘stylometery’ to internet forums to see how many accounts are owned by the same people.
HAH!!!!
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