'How do you spell Graham?' I'd never been asked that before. Every second person in Cumberland is called Graham. He was showing off that he could read and write.
Hunter Davies, The Rise and Fall of Jake Sullivan, 1970
Stephen King or Richard Bachman? Stephen King also wrote under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman for some of his earlier novels. The name was a combination of the first name of a pseudonym for another fiction writer, and the last name of musician.