Friday, May 31, 2024

Writers with Similar Name

 Alexandre Dumas and Alexandre Dumas (Father and son). So they add the suffixes 'pere' and 'fils' with the names respectively to distinguish between them - The three musketers

Arundathi Roy and Anuradha Roy - All the lives we never lived, Sleeping on Jupiter, The folded Earth, An Atlas of impossible longing

Chitrita Banarjee and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Latter am a big fan, and have read many of her books, formers just got her first book Eating India.

Chetan Bhagat and Ketan Bhagat. - Lesser known brother of Chetan and their writing is completely different and so has been their journey. We know about Chetan, books by Khetan are Complete/ Convenient, a story around what a man goes through once he gets the job and woman of his life. Second book, Child/God, tells the story of how fatherhood transforms a man.  Child/Currency – is about the tough times and unfairness men face during divorce.

Jeffrey Archer and Geoffrey Archer Jeffrey Archer mentions someone getting a book signed by him which was actually written by Geoffrey Archer in on of his books ( I guess Prison Diaries )

Patricia Cornwell and Bernard Cornwell - Patricia Cornwell (born June 9, 1956, Miami, Florida, U.S.) is an American crime writer, a descended from abolitionist and author of books like Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe. She's written over thirty books, most of them featuring the beloved Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner based in Richmond, Virginia. Her crime stories are known for their substantial focus on forensic science, which often features heavily in the plots.

Bernard Cornwell is the most successful author of historical fiction of recent years. He is best known for his novels about the Napoleonic Wars rifleman, Richard Sharpe and has many Sharpe's novels to his credit. Cornwell had taken his mother's maiden name as his own. But his father was William Oughtred – and Oughtred means 'Son of Uhtred'. He realised that he had ancestors who had been part of the great Saxon invasion and settlement of what was to become England. His own Uhtred is pure fiction, he says.

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