While She Knits - Randomly Pondering
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queensthiefHave you ever considered how many authors use three names?
No, really. Have you? Some of my favorites do. Megan Whalen Turner. Diana Wynne Jones. Arthur Conan Doyle.
Who all can you think of? Extra points if you've read their stuff.
No, really. Have you? Some of my favorites do. Megan Whalen Turner. Diana Wynne Jones. Arthur Conan Doyle.
Who all can you think of? Extra points if you've read their stuff.
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Date: 8/18/12 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 8/18/12 04:03 am (UTC)On a side note, has anyone noticed how many famous fantasy writers have J and R in their initials? J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin (G, but it's a soft g) Robert Jordon...
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Date: 8/18/12 04:08 am (UTC)Sarah Rees Brennan.
Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Gail Carson Levine.
Orson Scott Card.
There are way more two-name and initial-name authors.
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Date: 8/18/12 04:42 pm (UTC)Robert Louis Stevenson
Marie Pope Osbourne
C.S. Lewis (Does that count?)
Anne Elisabeth Stengl
I thought of more before, but I can't remember that now...Ugh! And yes, I have read everyone on that list :)
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Date: 8/19/12 01:13 am (UTC)So I have deemed.
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Date: 8/21/12 04:17 pm (UTC)But if we can add poets, I've got 2 favorites with 2 names....
William Butler Yeats
Gerard Manley Hopkins
~deirdrej
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Date: 8/18/12 10:00 pm (UTC)Nina Kiriki Hoffman (haven't read the book by her, but she's on my shelf)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley
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Date: 8/19/12 07:31 pm (UTC)Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
I took a U.S. History 1 test a few weeks ago and they were obsessed with these two!
Ooh, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Seems like it used to be more popular to use 3 names than it is now.
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Date: 8/19/12 01:49 am (UTC)A lot of the authors I read use middle initials but I see it has been declared that doesn't count. :P
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Date: 8/19/12 02:07 am (UTC)Does Charles Lutwidge Dodgson count, or does he have to go by Lewis Carroll for the Alice books?
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jessica Day George
Louisa May Alcott (though I haven't read anything by her...)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (or her either..)
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Date: 8/19/12 08:23 pm (UTC)Edit: And, looking through my Goodreads, I found out a couple more: Mette Ivie Harrison, and Vivian Vande Velde.
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Date: 8/19/12 02:17 pm (UTC)Joyce Lankester Brisley- Milly Molly Mandy
Margaret Peterson Haddix- lots of books
Dick King Smith?-lots of books (I think he is offically King-Smith)
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Date: 8/19/12 04:24 pm (UTC)~mwt
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Date: 8/19/12 06:44 pm (UTC)James Fenimore Cooper
+ a bunch of others that have already been mentioned
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Date: 8/21/12 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 8/21/12 02:35 am (UTC)Laura Lee Hope :)
Erle Stanley Gardner
Clyde Robert Bulla
Margaret Wise Brown
Clare Turlay Newberry
Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Caroline Dale Snedeker
Elizabeth George Speare
Jean Craighead George
Patricia Reilly Giff
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Date: 8/21/12 03:39 pm (UTC)Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Date: 8/23/12 05:02 am (UTC)On a similar topic, we should have a thread for authors who use initials. (Ursula K. LeGuin, R. J. Anderson, George R. R. Martin, anyone?)
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Date: 8/26/12 05:25 pm (UTC)Also, Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood [ya historicals with rocking female protags] & Carole Nelson Douglas [some sf & fantasy, but mostly mystery].