One of my favorite users of heteronyms was Philip Jose Farmer. Most famously writing Venus on the Halfshell under the pen name Kilgore Trout, a character from Kurt Vonnegut.
And Kilgore Trout was himself based on Vonnegut’s friend the great SF writer Theodore Sturgeon (of More Than Human fame). So a heteronym of a heteronym, almost
One of my favorite users of heteronyms was Philip Jose Farmer. Most famously writing Venus on the Halfshell under the pen name Kilgore Trout, a character from Kurt Vonnegut.
I’ve read Farmer, but I had no idea he wrote under that heteronym!
And Kilgore Trout was himself based on Vonnegut’s friend the great SF writer Theodore Sturgeon (of More Than Human fame). So a heteronym of a heteronym, almost
Pessoa had semi-heteronyms, and it seems, heteronyms who made heteronyms!
A true legend! I actually have Disquiet and his poetry collection right next to me in my stack and still need to read them