Why Do We Praise Male And Female Authors Differently?

<p>That got me thinking: Why do we label female authors that way? I can&rsquo;t recall having seen Arthur Conan Doyle called &ldquo;the king of crime fiction.&rdquo; Nor have I seen that label applied to Edgar Allan Poe or Georges Simenon or any of the other men who might have qualified.</p> <p>Something similar occurs with the phrase &ldquo;grande dame.&rdquo; Mary Higgins Clark was called the &ldquo;grande dame of suspense&rdquo; by her publisher as well as her fans.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/lit-life/why-do-we-praise-male-and-female-authors-differently-d22e4a7d77ca"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>