> If this is true - and to me this is a big 'if' This is pretty easy to verify. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-interview/index.html

> If this is true - and to me this is a big 'if' This is pretty easy to verify. https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-interview/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/world/amanpour-j-k-rowling-in... > my publisher, who published Harry Potter, they said to me, we think this is a book that will appeal to boys and girls. And I said, oh, great. And they said, so could we use your initials? > Because, basically they were trying to disguise my gender. She doesn't actually have a middle name, the K was just arbitrarily added to make a better initialism