Author Ego

 Authors, especially famous ones, often are bloated with egos inflated by their fame.   Yes, they are read. Yes, they are adopted and adapted in their style and topics, by the world at large in various languages and at media hype events. Most of the world's noted authors are humbled by how they "got there". They are famous but fame doesn't necessarily mean excellent writing. With as many writers as there are subjects, one can find the famous in the Canadian penning arts: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, biography, auto-biography.  Each author writes about his or her topic and becomes notable in that particular genre. I listened to this well-known author  today who was being interviewed in a podcast, whatever that means other than "the radio", and while I will not divulge the writer's personal information, I will say that it led to learning that the age of the writer who is in the mid-eighties greatly offended me with its sheer ego. I am concerned with agism as most of my fellow elders are because it is the new and sadly ignored latest prejudice on the globe. It is also the one that the world has decided to turn its back on due to a rampant switch in human concern to finances over humanity. Nonetheless, this famous author didn't help the situation in pointing out on air, that great writing in Canada began with their particular works. This person, this individual's self- praising rant was difficult to fathom. I was horrified that someone who carries a certain load of responsibility as but one of our famous Canadian authors, should so  blatantly display such a dearth of conceit as thinking itself as the acme. This writer gained, to be blunt and honest, most of its fame through entertainment cameras out of the US. While the guts of the shows to do with this author's work are the author's ideas, indeed, one must credit the entire media including the actors and advertisers and other writers who plumped up this author's book to allow that fame that happened, to be given the credit. I was embarrassed by the writer's tone which bespoke an inflated egotistical overage, as the conversation ensued at the interview. I have read many of our finest Canadian authors, past and present, who are in the same fiction genre, as this author and are certainy equal and even surpassing the talent of this particular writer. For any author to assume such obvious self-adoration publicly offends my Canadian reader's sensitivity.