The original British-American, two writers with the same name
problem came a little more than a century ago with the
American novelist Winston Churchill (b.1871) and the British
journalist-historian-MP Winston Churchill (b.1874). The
American Churchill had several best selling novels (RICHARD
CARVEL (1899) and THE CRISIS (1901))and was probably better
known in the early 20th Century.
The two Churchills corresponded and the British Winston
graciously volunteered to begin using his middle initial and
subsequent books carried the byline Winston S. Churchill. It
was all very amicable and the American Winston later
sponsored a reception in Boston for the British
Winston.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "m23to53"
<library.john@...> wrote:
>
> From what I have read, it was not exactly done
willingly. More that
> he gave in to the US Robin Cook who thought he had
the right to use
> the name (I suppose he was the bigger cheese at the
time) and
> apparently threatened legal action if our Cook
continued to use it.
> He was Robert William Arthur Cook by the
way.
> I do wonder what would have happened if he had
continued to write
and
> use the name in the early 1970s, instead of stopping
after his
books
> in the 1960s. I suppose he would have had a better
prior claim then.
>
> Regards
> John
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@
wrote:
> >
> > The Lange/Lange thing is not unique.
> >
> > Saw a book today by Michael Collins, but it
wasn't Dennis Lynds
> writing
> > about Dan Fortune.
> >
> > Howard Browne wrote the Paul Pine books as John
Evans; later
there
> was a
> > writer named Jonathan Evans (and a Paul
Pines).
> >
> > Our Al Guthrie uses his entire first name,
Allan, I guess to keep
> from
> > being confused with a pre-existing Al
Guthrie.
> >
> > And when returning to writing, the British
Robin Cook changed his
> name
> > to Derek Raymond to avoid being confused with
the US one that had
> gotten
> > popular during his down time.
> >
> > Mark
> >
>
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