Shouldn’t that be Zwiebel?
Are you sure? It sure sounds it might be.
L. Al-Khool Jay?
And, getting in front of tomorrow’s thread: Name Initial Initial.
Rundy M. C.
Oops, I, um, must have used the spelling from before the 1807 Treaty of Tilsit when the House of Zweibel sought to distance itself from the Prussians. I wonder if something similar happened to the Al-Khool’s.
G.E. Mixmaster
(That’s one of my unsuccesful rap names.)
A.C. Swinburne 1837
H.H. Asquith 1852
Certainly not the first, but there’s A. Whitney Brown, a Saturday Night Live writer and cast member in the mid-'80s.
Diabetes guy used to be A. Wilford Brimley, but dropped the A after The Thing, so eat yer oatmeal, dammit!
How about a woman?
D.B. Cooper
(who, AFAIK, never rolled a clyde in his life)
G. Julius Caesar.
This is both a really good point (because initial + second name + third name is really common for Roman names) and invalid (because “Julius” is a family name, not a give name).
D.W. Griffith - b. 1875
J. M. Barrie - b. 1860
H. G. Wells - b. 1866
Some people are interpreting the OP differently from me.
Doesn’t really make a difference. It’s how we, today, refer to the person. And he’s known as Julius Caesar, not G. Julius Caesar.
And yet someday he hopes to be The Whitney Brown.
How about J. R. R. Tolkien (1892)? Or is that another thread?
Damifino. I didn’t think of the possibility of a three-initial person. Maybe he should go into his own list, unless there’s another out there.
Thought of another 2-initial person: A.E. van Vogt 1912
C. P. E. Bach?
S.L.A. Marshall
In early science fiction we also have L. Sprague de Camp, C. L. Moore, F. L. Wallace, H. Chandler Elliott, E. M. Hull, and, most famously, L. Ron Hubbard.
Mystery writers of that era include D. B. Olsen, H. F. Heard, A. A. Fair, H. W. Roden, E. M. Hull (a different one), C. W. Grafton (Sue’s father), A. B. Cunningham, W. A. Swanberg, E. B. Mann, M. V. Heberden, A. I. Bezzerides, and B. M. Bower. Some of them are pretty obscure but were famous enough then to get reprinted in a Dell mapback paperback and I have them all in my collection.
And then there’s P. G. Wodehouse and H. G. Wells, who both would have been more famous than any of those guys and both had a Dell reprint.
What is it about fantasy authors and the double R middle initial?
We’ve got George R. R. Martin and E. R. Eddison (which I always added an extra “R” to, long before Martin. Maybe it was the double “D” in “Eddison”)