"Bachman"", details the whole Bachman/King story. (In 1996, the collection was reissued with a new King essay, ""The Importance of Being Bachman"".) Richard Bachman was also referred to in Stephen King's ""The Dark Tower"" series of books. In the fifth book, "","" the sinister children's book ""Charlie the Choo Choo"" is revealed to be written by ""Claudia y Inez Bachman."" The spelling discrepancy of the added 'y' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of ""The White"" (a force of good throughout King's ""Tower"" series) to bring the total number of letters in her name to"
"A. Heinlein wrote stories under pseudonyms of Anson MacDonald (a combination of his middle name and his then-wife's maiden name) and Caleb Strong so that more of his works could be published in a single magazine. Stephen King published four novels under the name Richard Bachman because publishers didn't feel the public would buy more than one novel per year from a single author. Eventually, after critics found a large number of style similarities, publishers revealed Bachman's true identity. Sometimes a pen name is used because an author believes that their name does not suit the genre he or she"
"Bachman was, in fact, King. The pseudonym King originally selected (Gus Pillsbury) is King's maternal grandfather's name, but at the last moment (due to the pseudonym being ousted) King changed it to Richard Bachman. Richard is a tribute to crime author Donald E. Westlake's long-running pseudonym Richard Stark. (The surname Stark ""was"" later used in King's novel ""The Dark Half,"" in which an author's malevolent pseudonym, ""George Stark"", comes to life.) Bachman was inspired by Bachman–Turner Overdrive, a rock and roll band King was listening to at the time his publisher asked him to choose a pseudonym on the spot."
"and 1982 under the name Richard Bachman, which were reissued in one volume as ""The Bachman Books"" (1985). The others are ""Rage"" (1977), ""The Long Walk"" (1979), and ""Roadwork"" (1981). King created ""Richard Bachman"" to be his long-term alias, not just a temporary writing identity, but his real name was leaked to the media. He based ""The Dark Half"", a horror novel published in 1989, on the outing of Bachman. According to King's 2002 memoir """", he wrote ""The Running Man"" within a single week, compared to his normal 2,000-word or ten-page daily output—so that writing a novel normally takes"
"Man"" (1982) and ""Thinner"" (1984)—under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. The idea behind this was to test whether he could replicate his success again and to allay his fears that his popularity was an accident. An alternate explanation was that publishing standards at the time allowed only a single book a year. He picked up the name from the hard rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, of which he is a fan. Richard Bachman was exposed as King's pseudonym by a persistent Washington, D.C. bookstore clerk, Steve Brown, who noticed similarities between the works and later located publisher's records at the Library of"
"finally I thought to myself... the reason I’ve never done it was because, in my memory at least, it was a tearjerker of a book, you know it was kind of sentimental and just kind of... every now and then I think of what Oscar Wilde said about ""The Little Match Girl"". He said that it’s impossible to read about the little match girl without weeping tears of laughter and... you know something that is so sad it’s actually funny. Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced"
"but also uses several pseudonyms, some of them female. Pseudonyms used include: Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray, Alan Savage and Nicholas Grant. He wrote disaster thrillers in collaboration with his wife, Diana Bachmann, under the pen name Max Marlow. Under his different pseudonyms he has worked with many publishing houses: Jarrolds, Hutchinson, Simon & Schuster, Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, Jove, Michael Joseph, Mills & Boon, and Severn House. He specialized in series and sagas, and continues to write in the 21st century."
"a short 'a' sound as in ""back""), and he uses this pronunciation when referring to himself. The more common pronunciation of ""bock-mən"", especially on American radio, became so widespread, however, that he did not bother correcting people after BTO became popular. Randy Bachman Randolph Charles Bachman, (; born September 27, 1943) is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums. He is also a national"
"The Dark Half The Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. ""Publishers Weekly"" listed ""The Dark Half"" as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's ""Clear and Present Danger"". The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993. Stephen King wrote several books under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, during the 1970s and 1980s. Most of the Bachman novels were darker and more cynical in nature, featuring a far more visceral sense of horror than the psychological, gothic style common to many of King's most famous works."
"Blaze (novel) Blaze is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman. King announced on his website that he ""found it"" in an attic. In fact (as mentioned in the afterword of ""Different Seasons"") it was written before ""Carrie"" and King offered the original draft of the novel to his Doubleday publishers at the same time as ""'Salem's Lot"". They chose the latter to be his second novel and ""Blaze"" became a ""trunk novel."" King rewrote the manuscript, editing out much of what he perceived as over-sentimentality in the original text, and offered the"
"the pseudonym was publicly exposed around the time of the 1984 release of the Bachman novel ""Thinner"". However, on the book's jacket and in a tongue-in-cheek introduction by the book's editor, it was alleged that this 1996 work was written by Bachman years earlier, but the manuscript had only recently been discovered by his widow in a trunk. The novel began as a screenplay titled ""The Shotgunners"". King says that film writer-director Sam Peckinpah read the script made some suggestions, but Peckinpah died while King was writing the second draft. The story begins with a paper boy named Cary Ripton"
"Randy Bachman Randolph Charles Bachman, (; born September 27, 1943) is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman–Turner Overdrive. Bachman was also a member of Brave Belt, Union and Ironhorse, and has recorded numerous solo albums. He is also a national radio personality on CBC Radio, hosting the weekly music show, ""Vinyl Tap"". Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Karl (Charlie) Bachman and Anne (Nancy) Dobrinsky, Bachman is of half German and half Ukrainian ancestry. At age three, he won a singing contest"
"Reinhard Bachmann Reinhard Bachmann (*15 February 1961) is a German born social scientist who teaches and researches at SOAS University of London. He is Professor of International Management, Head of the School of Finance and Management, and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Trust Research at SOAS. His work focusses on Strategic Management and Organizational Analysis; it includes notable contributions to the field of trust research. Bachmann taught at the University of Cambridge (Research Fellow), University of Groningen (Assistant Professor), University of London, Birkbeck College (as Associate Professor/Reader) and University of Surrey (Professor). In 2006, he accepted guest"
"Reinhard Bachmann Reinhard Bachmann (*15 February 1961) is a German born social scientist who teaches and researches at SOAS University of London. He is Professor of International Management, Head of the School of Finance and Management, and the Founder and Director of the Centre for Trust Research at SOAS. His work focusses on Strategic Management and Organizational Analysis; it includes notable contributions to the field of trust research. Bachmann taught at the University of Cambridge (Research Fellow), University of Groningen (Assistant Professor), University of London, Birkbeck College (as Associate Professor/Reader) and University of Surrey (Professor). In 2006, he accepted guest"
"Roadwork Roadwork is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1981 under the pseudonym Richard Bachman as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus ""The Bachman Books"", which is no longer in print. However, three of the four novels in that collection - ""Roadwork"", ""The Long Walk"", and ""The Running Man"" - have since been reprinted as standalone titles. The story takes place in an unnamed Midwestern city in 1973–1974. Grieving over the death of his son and the disintegration of his marriage, a man is driven to mental instability when he learns"
"Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 58 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman, and six non-fiction books. He has written around 200 short stories, most of which have been published in book collections. King has received Bram Stoker Awards, World Fantasy Awards, and British Fantasy Society Awards. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded"
"The Long Walk The Long Walk is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus ""The Bachman Books"", and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling walking contest, held annually by a totalitarian version of the United States of America. In 2000, the American Library Association listed ""The Long Walk"" as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published"
"always sitting in the front row when he was lecturing. Bachmann (short story) ""Bachmann"" is a short story written in Russian by Vladimir Nabokov under his nom-de-plume V. Sirin in Berlin in 1924. It was first published in Rul, a Russian émigré paper founded by his father, Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, and later included in a number of short story collections: ""Vozvrashchenie Chorba"", ""Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories"" (1975), and ""The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov"" (1995). He and his son, Dmitri Nabokov, provided the English translation. The story has an outer narrator who receives the story by Sack, the inner narrator."
"Community Players, McLean, Virginia McLean Theater Alliance, McLean, Virginia Potomac Theater Company, Potomac, Maryland Rock Spring Congregational Church, McLean, Virginia Rockville Musical Theatre, Rockville, Maryland Tantallon Community Players, Fort Washington, Maryland The Writer’s Center, Washington, D.C. Hans Bachmann Hans Rudolph Bachmann, Jr. (born June 24, 1954) is an American theatre and film actor, director, singer and editor of Swiss-German descent. He is best known for his lead roles as Harold Brickman in Beyond the Rising Moon and as Frank McCall in Invader. Hans Rudolph Bachmann Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio on June 24, 1954 as the first of two"
"wrote a bi-monthly column on theoretical and applied military problems for ""Fire and Movement"" under the pseudonym of the Armchair General. He is the author or co-author of over 200 papers, articles, chapters, and books, and of over $6 million in successful grant proposals. Currently, he is retired but continues to teach on line courses while volunteering for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the local Community Emergency Response Team, and as a member of the Selective Service Board. David Churchman David Churchman (born 1938) is a California State University Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Behavioral Science and Professor of Humanities recognized"
"When King was identified as Bachman, he wrote ""The Dark Half"" – about an author with a sinister parasitic twin – in response to his outing. Thad Beaumont is an author and recovering alcoholic who lives in the town of Ludlow, Maine. Thad's own books – cerebral literary fiction – are not very successful. However, under the pen name ""George Stark"", he writes highly successful crime novels about a violent killer named Alexis Machine. When Thad's authorship of Stark's novels becomes public knowledge, Thad and his wife, Elizabeth, decide to stage a mock burial for his alter ego at the"
"pseudonym of Juliet Ashton. She has written a further three novels as Juliet Ashton for Simon & Schuster and four novels as Claire Sandy for Pan Macmillan. She also writes screen and theatre works under her maiden name of Bernie Gaughan. In 2017 Simon & Schuster announced that Strachan would be writing a crime thriller series with her composer husband Matthew Strachan under the pseudonym of M.B. Vincent. Bernadette Strachan was born in Fulham, London into an Irish Catholic family. Her Irish background is often incorporated into her writing, particularly in the semi-autobiographical musical ""Next Door's Baby"" which was written"
"Lily, and Benjamin Gellman. Barton Gellman Barton David Gellman (born 1960) is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his reports on the September 11 attacks, on Dick Cheney's vice presidency and on the global surveillance disclosure. Beginning in June 2013 he led ""The Washington Post""s coverage of the U.S. National Security Agency, based on top secret documents provided to him by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden. He is writing a book for Penguin Press on the rise of the surveillance-industrial state. Gellman is based at the Century Foundation, where he is a senior fellow, and also holds an appointment"
"Pseudonymous Bosch Pseudonymous Bosch is the pen name of Raphael Simon, the author of ""The Secret Series"" and ""The Bad Books"" series of fictional children's books. He has released 9 books. Bosch had long been suspected to be the author Raphael Simon. However, this had been disputed by the author. On May 8, 2016, however, it was explicitly stated in ""The New York Times"" that Bosch is, in fact, named Simon. The pseudonym plays off that of the artist Hieronymus Bosch. Though Bosch, in real-life, is openly gay, he has stated that his pseudonymous form is not necessarily so. The"
"season, a season culminating in the Sox winning the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series. In the 2005 film ""Fever Pitch,"" about an obsessive Boston Red Sox fan, King tosses out the first pitch of the Sox's opening-day game. Stephen King Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies, many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television series, and comic books. King has published 58 novels, including seven under the pen name Richard Bachman,"
"Rage (King novel) Rage (written as Getting It On; the title was changed before publication) is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was first published in 1977 and then was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus ""The Bachman Books"". The novel describes a school shooting, and has been associated with actual high school shooting incidents in the 1980s and 1990s. In response King allowed the novel to fall out of print, and in 2013 he published a non-fiction, anti-firearms violence essay titled ""Guns"". Charlie Decker, a"
"George Goodman George Jerome Waldo Goodman (August 10, 1930 – January 3, 2014) was an American author and economics broadcast commentator, best known by his pseudonym Adam Smith (which was assigned by Clay Felker at ""New York"" magazine in order to keep his published articles about Wall Street anonymous). He also wrote fiction under the name ""George Goodman"". Goodman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Alexander Mark Goodman and Viona Cremer Goodman. He attended Harvard College, graduating ""magna cum laude"", and served as an editor of ""The Harvard Crimson"". Goodman won a Rhodes Scholarship to Brasenose College,"
"Lorelei Bachman Lorelei Elise Bachman (; born May 20, 1973) is a Canadian writer and songwriter. Bachman is from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. She is the daughter of Canadian rocker Randy Bachman of the classic rock bands The Guess Who and Bachman Turner Overdrive, and sister of pop musician Tal Bachman. Bachman is of German, Scottish, Ukrainian and British descent. She accompanied her father and siblings to Germany for the CBC Genealogy program ""Who Do You Think You Are?"" Bachman has written pop music for recording artists as well as thematic music for television and theatre. She co-wrote several selections"
"She currently lives in a Leicestershire village with her husband and three children. The Superpowers series features boys and ""I wrote it under the name Alex Cliff in case the name Linda Chapman put any boys off."" Linda Chapman Linda Anne Chapman (born 15 January 1969 in Liverpool) is a British writer, principally of series for younger children. She is particularly known for her fantasy books about unicorns, mermaids and magic. She also writes the Spell Sisters series as Amber Castle and the Superpowers series as Alex Cliff (her own pseudonyms). She has written several of the series books published"
"The Running Man (novel) The Running Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Stephen King, first published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1982 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the omnibus ""The Bachman Books"". The novel is set in a dystopian United States during the year 2025, in which the nation's economy is in ruins and world violence is rising. The story follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the game show ""The Running Man"" in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by ""Hunters"" employed to kill"
"Christopher Nicole Christopher Robin Nicole (born ) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He has written as Christopher Nicole and also under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the pen name Max Marlow when co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann. Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, in British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is"
"Christopher Nicole Christopher Robin Nicole (born ) is a prolific British writer of over 200 novels and non-fiction books since 1957. He has written as Christopher Nicole and also under several pseudonyms including Peter Grange, Andrew York, Robin Cade, Mark Logan, Christina Nicholson, Alison York, Leslie Arlen, Robin Nicholson, C.R. Nicholson, Daniel Adams, Simon McKay, Caroline Gray and Alan Savage. He also wrote under the pen name Max Marlow when co-authoring with his wife, fellow author Diana Bachmann. Christopher Robin Nicole was born on 7 December 1930 in Georgetown, in British Guiana (now Guyana), where he was raised. He is"
"at King's alma mater, the University of Maine in Orono, for many years and had been covered by numerous King experts. King rewrote the original 1973 manuscript for its publication. King has used other pseudonyms. The short story ""The Fifth Quarter"" was published under the pseudonym John Swithen (the name of a character in the novel ""Carrie""), that was published in ""Cavalier"" in April 1972. The story was reprinted in King's collection ""Nightmares & Dreamscapes"" in 1993 under his own name. In the introduction to the Bachman novel ""Blaze"", King claims, with tongue-in-cheek, that ""Bachman"" was the person using the"