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Originally Posted by EnterNameHere
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...
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!
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Technically so also was C.S. Lewis, because though he is described as a British Author and lived most of his life in England, Northern Ireland didn't exist till 1922. He was born in 1898, Belfast, Ireland.
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Edit: Lewis & Yeats
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Lewis developed a particular fondness for W. B. Yeats, in part because of Yeats's use of Ireland's Celtic heritage in poetry. In a letter to a friend, Lewis wrote, "I have here discovered an author exactly after my own heart, whom I am sure you would delight in, W. B. Yeats. He writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology."
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And after meeting Yeats:
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"I am often surprised to find how utterly ignored Yeats is among the men I have met: perhaps his appeal is purely Irish – if so, then thank the gods that I am Irish.
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Re: Chris Brookmyre, who is listed as "Chris Brookmyre"
I've seen that with some authors writing in one genre. It's hard to know if personal reasons or a publisher's whim without asking them, but many are dead. J. M. Barrie's full name is on "Quality Street".