Hypertext Webster Gateway: "authorship"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Authorship \Au"thor*ship\, n.
1. The quality or state of being an author; function or
dignity of an author.
2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book
or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
authorship
n : the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of
therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed
authorship" [syn: {writing}, {composition}, {penning}]
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