Authorship Renounced: The 'Found' Source in the Historical Record

Most often, authorship is a prized status, sometimes to the point of being claimed by those who have no right to it. Conversely, throughout history many works have appeared in which authorship to credited to someone other than the person(s) who brought to it public attention. Often these individuals masquerade as 'editors,' purporting to have discovered a work that they actually wrote themselves. When this claim is accepted, the record of the past becomes distorted because false claims are accepted as true.