The aim of this chapter is to highlight the way in which gender and sexuality have inflected conceptions of authorship. Several categories such as that of author, language, and text (with a special emphasis on the latter) come to bear on the criticism of literature produced by individuals reflecting the spectrum of gender diversity. I here examine a wide array of English-language fictional texts, mostly from England and the US, but also autobiographies or other forms of life-writing from the English Renaissance to the beginning of the twenty-first century, with one incursion, at the end, into a non-Western context. I distinguish between five phases of authorship: (1) Fathering the text; (2) (M)Othering the text; (3) En-gendering the Text; (4) Queering the text and the author; and (5) Transgendering the text.