For me, there's a difference between "author name" and "real name". For the purpose of my library, "J.K. Rowling" and "Robert Galbraith" are two different "authors" and I'll file them completely separately, regardless of them having been written by the same "real" person. Likewise "Iain Banks" and "Iain M. Banks" are different authors - it's irrelevant (to me) that they happen to be the same human being.
I am struggling with Chris Brookmyre, who is listed as "Chris Brookmyre" on some of his books, and "Christopher Brookmyre" on others. There doesn't seem to be any good reason for this...
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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Use of initials amongst UK writers used to be common: P.G. Wodehouse, W.H. Auden, G.K. Chesterton, A.A. Milne, D.H. Lawrence, A.D. Hope, C.S. Lewis, A.E. Housman, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot.
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Ahem - W.B. Yeats (who went to the same school as me, if not exactly at the same time) was certainly not a "UK author" - he was Irish!