BulbasaurusThe7th t1_jclq6o4 wrote on March 17, 2023 at 7:11 PM

Nah, I don't really care. There are a couple I happened to see/hear from more and I either like or dislike them, but it was never a choice I made, it just happened.

(I used to think Robin Hobb was a man. I don't really like her books at all, but for YEARS I assumed she was a man. Then again, I am not a native English speaker, so Robin sounded like a male name to me.)

boxer_dogs_dance t1_jclsfg1 wrote on March 17, 2023 at 7:26 PM

It's both, see Robin Hood

BulbasaurusThe7th t1_jclt172 wrote on March 17, 2023 at 7:30 PM

Oh, I know it is both, but I assumed it was exclusively male.
Then again, in my language, names are either male or female. No name can be both.

Merle8888 t1_jcmg95a wrote on March 17, 2023 at 10:05 PM

English has some androgynous names, but often what you see is initially male names being colonized for women. Robin is one of those, a more and more female name as time goes by.

In the case of this author though it is a pen name (real name Megan Lindholm) and I am sure she chose it deliberately. She started using it at a time when women writing epic fantasy got little traction, and the first trilogy she wrote with it was in the first person from a male protagonist to boot. Her books with the pseudonym did far better than the ones published under her real name.

MrDozens t1_jcogmna wrote on March 18, 2023 at 9:53 AM

For the longest time i thought she was a guy also. Same thing for harper lee. I generally dont look up authors or what they do.

Haylerie t1_jcpvt4m wrote on March 18, 2023 at 5:16 PM

Oh, Harper Lee is a trigger name now.

She spent a lifetime earning an income, winning awards, and being praised for To Kill a Mockingbird. Then before she died she insisted on writing and publishing the sequel.

I am shocked that the new book was even published, and highly disappointed that it continues to be promoted for sale. The new book asserts physical abuse of women is normal and necessary, black people are a violent, ignorant subspecies, and most people need to be manipulated.

I wanted to break the CD I was listening to, but it was a library loan and I didn't want to put any money into the Harper Lee estate. It is hands down the worst book I have ever read. It's too bad they can't retroactively withdraw her Pulitzer Prize.