From what I have read, it was not exactly done willingly.
More that he gave in to the US Robin Cook who thought he had
the right to use the name (I suppose he was the bigger cheese
at the time) and apparently threatened legal action if our
Cook continued to use it. He was Robert William Arthur Cook
by the way. I do wonder what would have happened if he had
continued to write and use the name in the early 1970s,
instead of stopping after his books in the 1960s. I suppose
he would have had a better prior claim then.
Regards John
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, DJ-Anonyme@... wrote:
>
> The Lange/Lange thing is not unique.
>
> Saw a book today by Michael Collins, but it wasn't
Dennis Lynds
writing
> about Dan Fortune.
>
> Howard Browne wrote the Paul Pine books as John
Evans; later there
was a
> writer named Jonathan Evans (and a Paul
Pines).
>
> Our Al Guthrie uses his entire first name, Allan, I
guess to keep
from
> being confused with a pre-existing Al
Guthrie.
>
> And when returning to writing, the British Robin
Cook changed his
name
> to Derek Raymond to avoid being confused with the US
one that had
gotten
> popular during his down time.
>
> Mark
>
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