--- Jeremiah Healy <
jeremiahealy@earthlink.net> wrote:
> As to "Terry Devane" for a pseudonym, a little
more
> complicated. The
> lead character in the new legal thriller series is
a
> young, female,
> Irish-American attorney. "Terry" is
gender-neutral,
> because I didn't
> want to seem to be "impersonating" the other
gender.
Jerry--
Do you mind if I quote you on that? I'm doing a paper about
Carroll John Daly and gender issues in which I argue that his
first PI protagonist, Terry Mack, is intentionally gender
neutral. Knowing that another h-b writer at least had the
same thought at a different time might make, if not a
particularly strong argument, at least an interesting
footnote.
George.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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