Authors are so vulnerable. With every piece of art they write, they give a part of themselves to someone else. They provide a path to their inner self -like a creek in a rock.
And the reader? Well, the reader criticizes the author's words and questions it. Sometimes to an extent of hurting the author.
But some brave ones do have the courage to get the readers in their lifes and then too keep a veil of secrecy over themselves.