Why Do We Praise Male And Female Authors Differently?

That got me thinking: Why do we label female authors that way? I can’t recall having seen Arthur Conan Doyle called “the king of crime fiction.” Nor have I seen that label applied to Edgar Allan Poe or Georges Simenon or any of the other men who might have qualified.

Something similar occurs with the phrase “grande dame.” Mary Higgins Clark was called the “grande dame of suspense” by her publisher as well as her fans.

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