Reading with Style discussion

In honor of Louisa May Alcott's birthday on November 29, 1832, read a book by an author who is known by three names in Goodreads. Initials, name suffixes (Jr, Sr) and name prefixes (la, de, l' etc.) will not be counted as separate names, but hyphenated names will count as two names.

A starting point? Wikipedia List of 20th Century Authors

Acceptable three word author name examples:
Robert Louis Stevenon
Edgar Allen Poe
Chang-Rae Lee

Unacceptable three word author name examples:
J. K. Rowling
Louis L'Amour
Don DeLillo

I'm reading Don Quixote, so can you please confirm that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra works for this task?

Theresa~OctoberLace wrote: "I'm reading Don Quixote, so can you please confirm that Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra works for this task?"

Wow -- I didn't know that Cervantes had a second last name! I guess it shouldn't be unexpected since he was Spanish. Thanks for helping me learn something new everyday. :-)

Yes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra does work for this task.

Question - it says 'three names', not 'at least three names'. So four names don't qualify, right?
That would be unfortunate, as the author I am considering really has three names, but for whatever obscure reason goodreads has him listed with four names...

Will wrote: "Question - it says 'three names', not 'at least three names'. So four names don't qualify, right?
That would be unfortunate, as the author I am considering really has three names, but for whatever ..."

Who is it, Will?

Charles Thomas Osborne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... shows that he did the novelizations for several of Agatha Christie's plays)

But he is listed in goodreads as Charles Humfrey Caufield Osborne with that accomplishment.
Those extra middle names are nowhere else in the web to be found - it looks like Goodreads made them up?

Will wrote: "Charles Thomas Osborne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... shows that he did the novelizations for several of Agatha Christie's plays)

But he is listed in goodreads as [a..."

I'm going to work over in the Librarian's group on this author. There are a couple of issues. He only ever published as Charles Osborne, not Charles Thomas Osborne. If that change is allowed the 3-name would not apply in any case. However, in your defense, adaptations are usually separated from the main work. If the ruling over there goes that way, we will separate out all of Osborne's novelizations of the Christie plays so that his name appears first in the GR listings. At that time, I think the page counts will be in your favor. I don't think this will be decided this weekend, nor if decided to separate out the works, accomplished this week. But we have plenty of time left in the challenge. I'll keep you informed.

Thanks!

Hi Will:
Once they get that question about this author all sorted out --- I'm fine if the author for this task has more than three names. They should have at least three names that qualify per the task outlined requirements in order for the book to qualify.

I didn't even think about authors with four names when writing up my task rules. But I would be okay with authors with four (or more) more names too.

:-)

Will wrote: "Charles Thomas Osborne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... shows that he did the novelizations for several of Agatha Christie's plays)

But he is listed in goodreads as [a..."

Please see the follow-up over in the General Questions thread.

Please can you give a ruling on Emily St. John Mandel? I believe the "St John" part is one name (pronounced Sin-jun) as explained on Wiki. Or would it count as two words, so making her ineligible for this task?

Thank you, in advance.

Lagullande wrote: "Please can you give a ruling on Emily St. John Mandel? I believe the "St John" part is one name (pronounced Sin-jun) as explained on Wiki. Or would it count as two words, so making..."

She works.

This task needs AT LEAST three names. Sorry, I wasn't clear on that when writing the task. Four names are also okay.