# How to contact an author?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-contact-an-author/309615>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 24, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-contact-an-author/309615 "2005-06-24T01:39:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-contact-an-author/309615/21 "2005-06-26T17:17:38Z")

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I should mention that I once did write to two authors, after finding a home address for one(in Vancouver, B.C.) and a university routed one, in Texas. I had charming replies from both authors. But for the life of me I couldn’t remember how I found the addresses. :smack: Stupid of me, I guess.

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**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-contact-an-author/309615/22 "2005-06-26T20:01:35Z")

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It’s funny that you should bring up the topic of contacting an author. I have been extensively researching something and I have found the address of an author. He is one of five people connected to a little known but highly controversial story. He is the last one living and when he dies, everything he knows dies with him.

I have been contemplating writing to him but I fear that by doing so may come back to haunt me later on. So it is not always the author that is worried about others knowing about them. Once I complete my research which will be at the Library of Congress, I hope that I can decide whether to enter into correspondence. But again I am very worried about anyone besides me and the author finding out any of this. I suppose that I could alert the news networks anonymously to interview him. And that is what I will probably do. So you may see an interview in a couple of years but you will not know it is because of me.

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