@toxomat

Cool you learned to cite your sources, good job, thanks for doing the bare minimum.

@ned

@freemo @toxomat

'"I thought it had probably leaked from the BBC," the author said, adding she had feared someone at the corporation had "put two and two together".

Rowling's secret identity was actually revealed after a partner at a law firm told his wife's best friend.

The friend then revealed Rowling's identity to a Sunday Times journalist.

"I was a bit unlucky the way it happened," the Harry Potter creator told BBC Radio 2's Graham Norton.'

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45763539

@ned

Thank you, very interesting.

I wonder if she gave any excuses.

@toxomat

@freemo @ned @toxomat Wikipedia says it was "...a name she took from Robert F. Kennedy, a personal hero, and Ella Galbraith, a name she invented for herself in childhood."

Maybe, maybe not.

@swordgeek

Would be easy to confirm. If she made it up in childhood I would expect there to be some record of that somewhere.

@ned @toxomat

@freemo @swordgeek @toxomat

She claims, "I don't know why", because the name just appeared out of nowhere, apparently. :D

@ned

Do you have a reference to that conversation? or was it in the other link? I'd love to see her try to explain why there is no record of that name.

@swordgeek @toxomat