Hyphenation of first person

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Hi there, should you hyphenate ‘first person’ in the sentence “The book is written in the first person.” I thought you would only hyphenate if writing ‘This is a first-person narrative.’
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If it's a compound adjectives, yes, you hyphenate.
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