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boxer_dogs_dance t1_jclsfg1 wrote

Reply to comment by BulbasaurusThe7th in Do you ever look up the authors you're reading to get to know them better? by justkeepbreathing94

It's both, see Robin Hood

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BulbasaurusThe7th t1_jclt172 wrote

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.

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Merle8888 t1_jcmg95a wrote

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.

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