While She Knits - Randomly Pondering

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Have 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.

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[thefish30.livejournal.com]

Lois McMaster Bujold

[agh-4.livejournal.com]

Looking at my bookshelf, I only found Maud Hart Lovelace and Laura Amy Schlitz (not sure because her first name might be Laura Amy), but I see what you mean. :)

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Sarah Rees Brennan

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...

[live-momma.livejournal.com]

Besides the ones already mentioned (Lois McMaster Bujold FTW!!!), I see these on my shelf:

Sarah Rees Brennan.
Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Gail Carson Levine.
Orson Scott Card.

There are way more two-name and initial-name authors.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to see if we can count, Chex?! XD Hmm...Off the top of my head...
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 :)

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Initials Do Not Count.

So I have deemed.

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

But would make a great separate post, like how many authors use only their initials (usually two) before their last names. E.B. White, J. K. Rowling, L. M. Boston, etc. (E. Nesbit is one of the few 1-initial ones).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! A lot of my very favorite authors use initials -- C.S. Lewis, L.M. Boston, E.B. White....

But if we can add poets, I've got 2 favorites with 2 names....

William Butler Yeats
Gerard Manley Hopkins

~deirdrej

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

P.G. Wodehouse (Do initials count?)
Nina Kiriki Hoffman (haven't read the book by her, but she's on my shelf)
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

Does Sir Walter Scott count? XP

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Nope. That's not a name, that's a title.

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

My goodness! You have disqualified half of my entries! Here's some old guys to make up for it:

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.

[ladraove.livejournal.com]

Besides Megan, the only other three-name author on my shelf is Sena Jeter Naslund.

A lot of the authors I read use middle initials but I see it has been declared that doesn't count. :P

[kaeyko.livejournal.com]

L. Frank Baum for Ozma of Oz is in a drawer somewhere... (but I guess he doesn't count because of the initial.)

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..)

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Ah, how could I have forgotten about Jessica Day George? I have one of her books on hold right now!

[pico-the-great.livejournal.com]

When I was in middle school I used to read a lot of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Mary Downing Hahn. Never could get into Donna Jo Napoli, though I gave her several shots and she's a fine writer. Diana Wynne Jones and Arthur Conan Doyle all over the place, though, and though they were never especial favorites, I still always enjoyed Edgar Allan Poe and Hans Christian, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

Hmm... the only other ones I can think of whose works I've read are Elizabeth Marie Pope and Lucy Maud Montgomery (who as I scroll above now, is already mentioned. XD)

[manderelee.livejournal.com]

And apparently I have a long-forgotten book on my shelf by an author named Kate Douglas Wiggin. =D

Edit: And, looking through my Goodreads, I found out a couple more: Mette Ivie Harrison, and Vivian Vande Velde.

[(Anonymous)]

Lynne Reid Banks- The Indian in the Cupboard
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)

[chocolate-smash.livejournal.com]

Oops, forgot to log in. That was me!

[(Anonymous)]

Zilpha Keatley Snyder!

~mwt

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Great minds, Megan, I was just thinking of her! The Changeling and The Velvet Room are among my favorite books.

[(Anonymous)]

I love The Headless Cupid.

~mwt

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, also good. And Black and Blue Magic. "Mog will not remove a curse / Till better triumphs over worse / Till bad to worst / Has been reversed / And out of error good has burst."

[meltintall3.livejournal.com]

Mabel Leigh Hunt
James Fenimore Cooper
+ a bunch of others that have already been mentioned

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Joan Lowrey Nixon

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

Lenora Mattingly Weber.
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

[meltintall3.livejournal.com]

Seeing Laura Lee Hope reminded me...

Gertrude Chandler Warner

[tenar-padmire.livejournal.com]

Mette Ivie Harrison, Orson Scott Card, Cinda Williams Chima, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (is that allowed?).

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?)

[filkferengi]

Caroline Dale Snedeker rocks!

Also, Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood [ya historicals with rocking female protags] & Carole Nelson Douglas [some sf & fantasy, but mostly mystery].