Why does one person go by one name, and we know them by another? Where does the name transcend the normal, and become something of its own. Writers are notorious for this name changing situation. This is where the great psuedonyms came from:
Sam Clemmons becomes Mark Twain
Steven King becomes Richard Bachman
Charles Dodgson becomes Lewis Carrol
But what of those that had no choice of what name they went by? Who decided those things, and then suddenly went by some other name completely. Where did they come from, and why do we like them so?
Edgar Allan Poe - went by Ed.
F. Scott Fitzgerald went by Scot (notice the 1 T)
E. B. White went by E
William Faulkner went by Bill
Dr. Seuss was really Theordore Geisle and went by Ted
Charles Schultz went by Sparky.
Names are forever a fascination, for all the things that can happen with names, the making of the names, and the sheer oddity of names!!
Stay tune for the next Name post.....
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