To think about the author in contemporary literature, that is the goal of this research. In the first chapter, working with the hypothesis that the author acts like a creative realities weaver, some cases are revisited as references to present literary writing. Here we bring concepts like copy and similarity, at first sight trickeries of a false authorial attitude if we believe in the idea of an original creator. But these concepts are considered in this dissertation as legitimate assets for a provocative and exciting literature. The second chapter treats the author in the extratextual field, which means we discuss how, as a social character, he is formed in public life, being related with his oeuvre and his possible or effective reader. Our intent is to understand how the foucaultian author function emerges through the contact between writer and reader. In the last part, we bring other agents of the literary market who participate in the construction of the author, like literary agents, editors and other publishing professionals. The idea is to think about the author, and also the fiction itself, as a collective construction. With these three formulations, we try to comprehend where the author is placed from both intra and extratextual resources, always having in mind that we consider art as involved with society and its issues.