Who is a postmodern author?

A postmodern author is a writer whose work exhibits characteristics of postmodernism, a term that can be applied to literature, art, philosophy, and architecture to describe a rejection of the conventions and norms of modernism. They reject traditional notions of objective truth, absolute reality, and the superiority of reason and science. They celebrate heterogeneity, multiplicity, ambiguity, irony, self-awareness, metafiction, blurring of distinctions between high and low culture, parody, fragmentation, and skepticism and tend to reject grand narratives and totalizing systems of thought, while often employing metafictional devices, breaking down the boundary between the author and the reader. Examples of postmodern authors include Salman Rushdie, Jorge Luis Borges, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and Vladimir Nabokov.