# Kyle Williams - did he really write his book/columns?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 22, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kyle-williams-did-he-really-write-his-book-columns/214640 "2003-11-22T07:01:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hydrocortisone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@Hydrocortisone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hydrocortisone)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kyle-williams-did-he-really-write-his-book-columns/214640/1 "2003-11-22T07:01:09Z")

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Did Kyle Williams really write his book? Does he write his columns?  
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785263683/qid=1069484287/sr=8-2/ref=sr\_8\_2/104-5810658-7759153?v=glance&n=507846](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0785263683/qid=1069484287/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_2/104-5810658-7759153?v=glance&n=507846)

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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kyle-williams-did-he-really-write-his-book-columns/214640/2 "2003-11-22T15:09:43Z")

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Why do you ask? In other words, do you have any reason to believe he might not write his columns?

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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kyle-williams-did-he-really-write-his-book-columns/214640/3 "2003-11-22T15:50:44Z")

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In looking at the Amazon reviews the general consensus is that it’s a well written and clearly articulated series of articles from a conservative point of view, by a highly intelligent and talented 14 (now 15) year old, but for some the lack of world and life experience is very telling, and for them the articles read like standard, conservative, Limbaughesque agitprop.

I don’t think it’s beyond the realm of possibility that a 14 year who is a gifted writer could craft articles like this, and yes his parents may help him edit, but so what? It’s remarkable, but it’s hardly beyond the realm of possibility for a highly intelligent 14 year old to be doing this .

[Here are his veritas articles](http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=190)

If you read the articles it’s interesting how well written they are structurally (esp. for a 14 year old), but also how “flat” they are. His articles really do read contextually, (to me) like two dimensional boilerplate agitprop hackwork larded with a lot of “we’ll see blah, blah, blah” transitions. It’s about what you would expect from a good technical writer with no life experience.