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Hi! If you're here, it's likely because you're curious as to what an author needs to do to gain notability on Wikipedia! Establishing notability for an author on Wikipedia is incredibly difficult, as you need to show that the author or their works have received coverage in independent and reliable sources. You can read a bit I wrote about sourcing here, but I'll try to go over some specific points about notability for authors and books.