Jk Rowling Research Paper

A new chance, more opportunities! When you write books that become very popular, you have a huge fan base and a lot of pressure on what books you write next. That is why some authors use pen names. J.K Rowling did it, and now she is the creator of the most famous book series ever created! Many other authors have done so for various reasons, such as C. S. Lewis, Benjamin Franklin, Stephen King, Jane Eyre, and the three Brontë sisters. They used pen names mainly because of what time and place they lived in, and the circumstances that they were put in. Some also do it just to write more books! Pen names are now famous and not uncommon, so if you see a book that resembles another author’s writing style, it is most likely the same author using a

Probably the most famous one is Joanne Rowling. “Rowling’s publishers feared that young boys-the presumed audience of the Harry Potter series-wouldn’t take the book seriously if they knew it was written by a woman.” She used the pen name J.K. Rowling to hide her gender. She became so famous that she also used another pen name, which was Robert Galbraith, so she could write detective novels without the pressure of the Harry Potter fame. Benjamin Franklin-you know, the guy on the 100 dollar bill- he used a pen name because the publishers wouldn’t allow the 16 year old boy to be published in the newspaper, so he used the middle aged widow name Silence Dogood. It has been going on since the 1700’s, so you know it must have some meaning to

It was most likely the main reason why she went on and published poetry and books even though she was a woman. Robert Southey told her that her poems would not be published because she was a woman and women could not write poems in that time. In Southey’s reply,” Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be.” He denied Charlotte Brontë’s poems, but she was determined, and gave it some thought, and used a pen name to get it