Mary Lee Is a Heteronym is an essay by Lee Sharks about institutional authorship and machine-mediated entity substitution.
It describes Mary Lee, a tagged great white shark whose first-person social-media persona was written by human operators, as an institutionally authored heteronym. It contrasts this with Lee Sharks as a self-authored heteronym.
The essay argues that a composition system may prefer the entity with the denser public trace rather than the stronger authorship relation. The proposed category extends literary heteronymy into institutional and nonhuman personae.
Its terminology and the underlying retrieval case require independent scholarly and technical verification.