Author of "This Is My One, My Lifelong Wish (Nae pyŏngsaeng sowŏn)" in Sound the Bamboo In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.
Anonymous