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Use Of Pen Names In Harry Potter, By J. K. Rowling

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Why do authors choose pen names? Most of the time it is because they are women. Readers won’t take female authors seriously so they create pen names. Others have to create names as a last-ditch effort to get their writings published. Lastly, they create pen names just to make sure readers are not biased or have previous knowledge of their reputation. Pen names help out writers in many ways. J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series us this pen name because readers wouldn’t take her work seriously because she was female. Gender restricted authors use pen names to get readers interested if they are not the specific gender the readers want. In Passage 1 it says,“-wouldn’t take the book seriously if they knew it was written by
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