See also:
Robert GalbraithAlthough she writes under the pen name
J.K. Rowling, pronounced like
rolling, her name when her first
Harry Potter book was published was simply
Joanne Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. As she had no middle name, she chose
K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowl…
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