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Originally Posted by HarryT
So why isn't he called "Joe King"?  Is it a ploy to avoid bad puns along the lines of "only Joe King"? |
He decided to write under a pseudonym.
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Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (Joseph Hillstrom King) out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits rather than as the son of Stephen King.
How do you approach a career in horror when your dad is the most famous horror writer on Earth? That was the issue facing Joseph Hillstrom King, who feared that publishers would print anything he wrote just to cash in on his last name. So he chose to write under a pseudonym, Joe Hill, and was able to keep his identity secret for over a decade.
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