<P> Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling ( pronounced rolling ) , her name , before her remarriage , was simply Joanne Rowling . Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman , her publishers asked that she use two initials rather than her full name . As she had no middle name , she chose K ( for Kathleen ) as the second initial of her pen name , from her paternal grandmother . She calls herself Jo. Following her remarriage , she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business . During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her entry in Who 's Who lists her name also as Joanne Kathleen Rowling . </P>
<P> Although she writes under the pen name J.K. Rowling ( pronounced rolling ) , her name , before her remarriage , was simply Joanne Rowling . Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman , her publishers asked that she use two initials rather than her full name . As she had no middle name , she chose K ( for Kathleen ) as the second initial of her pen name , from her paternal grandmother . She calls herself Jo. Following her remarriage , she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business . During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling and her entry in Who 's Who lists her name also as Joanne Kathleen Rowling . </P>
why did jk rowling use a pseudonym for harry potter
why did jk rowling use a pseudonym for harry potter
target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman
target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman