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Title: Silly Author Names
Post by: FNH on April 14, 2007, 06:49:36 PM

Authors with silly names.  Or names that make you giggle for no real reason. Here's your starter.

Rudyard Kipling.  :D

Title: Re: Silly Author Names
Post by: SFEley on April 14, 2007, 08:01:53 PM

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett.

(Now you know why he went by his title, Lord Dunsany.)

Title: Re: Silly Author Names
Post by: FNH on April 16, 2007, 06:11:35 PM

Quote from: SFEley on April 14, 2007, 08:01:53 PM

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett.

(Now you know why he went by his title, Lord Dunsany.)

You beat me!

Title: Re: Silly Author Names
Post by: Simon Painter on April 20, 2007, 02:37:12 PM

A few years ago I found, to my horror, that an Author I'd loved as a kid: Nicholas Fisk, was actually called Peter Higgenbottom.  You can see why he changed his as well, can't you?

Simon Painter
Shropshire, UK

Title: Re: Silly Author Names
Post by: DKT on April 20, 2007, 04:51:37 PM

I've always thought Minister Faust's name straddled the line of silly and cool incredibly well.