Rowling's identity was uncovered when a family friend of her solicitors tweeted it out. > The Harry Potter author released her first Robert Galbraith novel, Th

Rowling's identity was uncovered when a family friend of her solicitors tweeted it out. > The Harry Potter author released her first Robert Galbraith novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, in April 2013 under the guise of a very British sounding man who was said to have previously served in the army. But her nom-de-plume was uncovered three months later after an indiscreet tweet divulging the true identity of Galbraith was sent by “@JudeCallegari”, a family friend of Christopher Gossage, a partner at Rowling’s solicitors. Some people would suggest that the book was doing poorly, and needed a sales bump.