How a writer works with humour across a lifetime: bio-strata, comic currents, style, workshops, habits, friendships and reception. Author profiles stay close to practice: the novels remain primary, the profile connects them.
Novel guides remain the core of The Novel of Comedy. Author profiles bundle together how a writer deploys comedy across several works, without turning into a full biography or a moral tribunal.
An author profile gathers what concerns the practice of comedy: through-lines over a career, recurring motifs, favourite settings, relation to language and society.
It does not aim to say everything about a life, but to build a usable compass: where does this writer sit in the three currents? What kinds of comic engines do they revisit?
The focus stays on how comedy works in the books, not on judging the life itself.
When sources allow, each profile opens with a bio capsule (“Bio · life strata”): childhood, education, professions, exiles, returns, recognitions.
This neutral layer can be expanded over time as new documents appear. The rest of the profile then reads these strata as a workshop: what kinds of institutions, landscapes or shocks feed the comic devices?
Here, the bio capsule and the comic workshop are simply articulated, not fused.
Like novel guides, author profiles follow a fixed architecture. Ten chapters, plus a small data stub, so that comparisons remain possible from one writer to another.
Each author profile ends with a short data stub (JSON-LD style) summarising coordinates: dates, country, currents, branches, Labs. This technical layer serves catalogues, libraries and AI assistants.
The list will grow progressively. At this stage, only a few authors have a full profile. Others are marked “in progress” and will be activated once their dossier is ready.
When a new author profile goes live, the corresponding card will switch from “in progress” to “available”, and links to the full matrix become active.