Famous Author Name Puns

Edit: Oops, typo in the title.

I came across a story on Amazon's new Vella project, which is basically novels in serial form. I've been working on writing one but I don't think it's going anywhere, I'm already stuck. However, I got some free credits and checked out other books on there. Came across one that seems suspiciously well written, not the usual fanfic / self published stuff, and I kind of wonder if it's a famous author posting under a pen name, like JK Rowling and Stephen King did. Googling the author gave me zero results, which doesn't make sense. Wouldn't an author want to promote themselves?

But here's the weird thing. I wrote a review, and mentioned briefly that I wondered if it's a famous author. Then a week later I come back to read another episode, and there's a second review. And it ALSO says they think it's a pen name: "Okay, so this story is too good to be written by a random person and when I went to see what else they wrote, there's no big history. I am convinced this is a secret celebrity or well known author."

I was half joking in my own review, but now I seriously wonder if it IS a pen name for someone else...

Is there any software or something where you could run a sample text and see if it's similar to famous novels? No results for the author's name on Google.

I know it’s not a lot to go off of but it’s a distinct premise, so I hope someone can help me out.

Edit: it might be a short story.

Edit2: It seems that the story I had in mind was Poe’s the tell tale heart, tho I don’t think it is so just in case, I’ll leave the thread open so people can still suggest.

That's all the details I can think of....

EDIT: it's not Noam Chomsky either

Which famous author's name resides at the bottom of the "Der moderne Buchdruck" (Modern Book Printing) statue in Berlin?

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I'm wondering if there's an author who is known for a particular book/series but whose other work you believe deserves more recognition (not necessarily awards, but just publicity)? I was thinking about how Guy Gavriel Kay is most often known for Tigana or Lions of Al Rassan, but personally I actually enjoyed Under Heaven more than those works and think it deserves more recognition. This got me thinking about how I often read books because the plot appeals to me, but when I enjoy an author's prose, I should try to read more of their works.

I am searching for a book for my grandfather, the title of the post is all the info I got from him. He doesn't remember the book title or the author's surname. Please be aware that the name might not be exact either.

However, to expand a bit on the book content. The outline is a compilation of biographies of ~10 different billionaires. So far I only have 5 names :

1. Ernest Oppenheimer

2. Howard Hughes

3. Calouste Gulbenkian

4. John D. Rockefeller

5. J. Paul Getty

The book is roughly 200-300 pages and was released somewhere in the late 1960s or early 1970s.

Would appreciate some help with this request, grandpa would be happy if ill manage to find the book! :-)

---------- UPDATE

Found the book The title is - 'The Money Crowd' by D.L. Thomas

Are there any famous books written by authors who never had any formal training in writing?

EDIT: wow, this post blew up! Some great answers all around!

In the Circular 33 (US laws), https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf it is written that names are not copyright-able: "Examples of names, titles, or short phrases that do not contain a sufficient amount of creativity to support a claim in copyright include: The name of an individual (including pseudonyms, pen names, or stage names)".

Does this mean that, abiding US laws, I could theoretically publish a book under a pen name of any author? For example could I publish a book with a pen name of "J K Rowling"? Does anyone know if this ever happened?

Edit:

I am in no way shape or form intending to do this; I'm just interested how this would work and how the authors would stop it; Thank you everyone for replying!

I’m curious to hear it. What are some of their famous books? If it’s competitive try and pick the one who’s known the best

Are there any famous books written by authors who had never written a book before or had any formal training in writing? Or maybe written by someone who hates reading and writing but loves the validation of Reddit posts? Writing is really boring so I just need someone to tell me it’s possible to become an all-time great writer without really trying.

I vaguely remember reading this around two to three years ago, no idea on what website.

Plot was like I described in the title. I remember the first half being more about the work itself and all the strange parts in it, and the second half being about several fans meeting up and going crazy due to…drugs or the effects of the book? I think it ended with some random frycook getting shanked by one of the fans, and then some weird in media res podcast dialog basically summarizing the entire story. (The second half is pretty bad.)

I think the author or events of the short story might be connected to or inspired by the homestuck craze/fandom?

Only other thing I remember is that the name might have the word “Cave” in it.

Well good luck everybody!

"Author responds poorly to negative review" seems to be a popular genre of posts on here lately, so here's another one, featuring some of the most pretentious writing ever put to digital page. Venice Under Glass was a video game partially developed for Windows in 1999, and released as a short demo to attract investors. Based on a script by Stephan J. Harper, it was an adventure game in which a detective travels around Venice in order to solve a series of thefts. Also, everyone in it is a teddy bear. Development halted after the publisher went bankrupt in 2000, but Harper kept the idea and self-published it as a book years later, in 2014.

Venice Under Glass (the book) was published using the iBooks Author app. It featured illustrations and sometimes videos, which appear to be screenshots of the unreleased game with filters over them. Unlike most picture books featuring teddy bears as the protagonists, it was apparently intended as a work of Serious Literary Fiction, at least according to the author.

Shortly after release, it was given a glowing (but weirdly apologetic) review by Neville Addison-Graves III, who said that:

>VENICE UNDER GLASS is endlessly inventive with character arcs so vivid and compelling it makes you wonder Why teddybears? (I'll get to that in a moment). Sparkling descriptions, intelligent dialogue and a perceptive, action-oriented narrator who provides thoughtful reflections on his world place the book in the company of the finest contemporary literary fiction on the market today. And it's a ripping good yarn! The plot is air-tight: not a string (or participle) left dangling. 
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>The few flaws in the book are likely to be corrected in ver 1.1 thanks to the digital format (UPDATE: ver 1.1 was released on July 16, 2015). For example, there is a grammatical error (a instead of an) that occurs so late in the story the reader is likely to pass right over it. But these are at the margins of criticism (does it matter Fitzgerald made a mistake in THE GREAT GATSBY when, during the funeral near the end of the novel, James Gatz' father shows Nick Carraway the notes his son made in a copy of HOPALONG CASSIDY [pub. 1910] that were dated 1906? This anachronism is only mentioned in passing: a curious artifact of interest to scholars and biographers, like Matthew J. Bruccoli who pens the i

I wont use my real name in this example for privacy reasons, but I believe the comparison holds.

I share a name with a famous American author, along the lines of Stephen King. I have written a novel and wish to self publish it through Amazon as an e-book. A pseudonym would obviously be OK, but I do rather like my name. It is a family name and the novel was inspired by real events in my family history, although its fictional in nature. It is a horror novel, which obviously Stephen King is known for writing in that genre.

Would it make a difference if I sold this novel or gave it away for free?

Would it matter if I used a middle initial, which is different than his?

Given it is in the same genre I can easily see how it can be construed as attempting to profit off his reputation and name recognition.

And just for hypothetical sake, would if matter if I chose his name as a pseudonym, or legally changed my name to match his and then published?

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In Russia, I am regarded as a leading historian in the field of Cosmonautics. So I know what really happened in the Star Wars program, I know who really crashed at Roswell and I know how often our race was risking total Armageddon during the height of the cold war.

I am a person who champions peace, but I’d like to present an opinion that counters that. I think that if the U.S. and Russia goes into another cold war (which is looking more and more likely), then the rate at which we expand our reach in the cosmos will increase exponentially.

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I believe The Silmarilion by JRR Tolkien / Christopher Tolkien does not even come within a whisker of being recognised for what it is. Christopher Tolkien did a great job piecing together his fathers notes. The lore and scale of the story telling is fantastic and in my mind makes the Lord of the Rings series feel very tame in comparison.

Some excellent obscure titles here I would never have known about! And from the sounds of it many authors were dismayed that their titles mentioned here were not as well read as the commercialised stuff.

Hopefully we can do our part and spread the wealth of our reading experience!

Here I've selected various excerpts that describe what we've come to understand as the typical stages of grooming and CSA, as well as the systematic behavior of child predators in regards to their choosing, manipulation and discarding of victims. We also see the effects on said victims, who struggle with guilt, shame, and with recognizing that what was done to them was abuse, well into adulthood.

The victim's broken family background

A father, conspicuous only by his absence, who left an unfathomable void in my life. A pronounced taste for reading. A certain sexual precocity. And, most of all, an enormous need to be seen. All the necessary elements were now in place. (…)

The groomer's celebrity background

ONE EVENING MY MOTHER DRAGGED ME ALONG TO A DINNER party to which some well-known literary figures had also been invited. Initially I refused to go point-blank. The company of her friends had become as excruciating to me as that of my classmates, from whom I was increasingly turning away. At the age of thirteen I was becoming a recluse. She insisted, grew angry, used emotional blackmail: I had to stop moping around on my own with my books, and anyway, what had her friends done to me, why didn’t I want to see them anymore? Eventually I gave in. He sat at the table at a forty-five-degree angle, a conspicuously striking presence. He was handsome, of indeterminate age; his head, scrupulously maintained, was entirely bald, which made him look a little like a Buddhist monk. His eyes followed my every movement, and when I finally dared to turn toward him, he threw me a smile, which I confused for a paternal smile, because it was the smile of a man, and I no longer had a father. With his brilliant comebacks and effortlessly well-chosen quotations, this man, who I soon realized was a writer, knew how to charm his audience, and clearly had an instinctive mastery of the strictly codified rules of Parisian social interaction. Every time he opened his mouth, his fellow guests hooted with laughter, but it was on me that his eyes—amused, mesmerizing—lingered. No man had ever looked at me like that before. (…) I stared into space, thinking how privileged I was to have met such a talented man of letters, so glamorous too (in truth, it was the memory of the way he looked at me that made my heart soar), and I began to see myself differently. Looking in the mirror now, I thought I was quite pretty. The toad, whose reflection used to make me flee what I saw in