Recently learned that Edgar Rice Burroughs—creator of Tarzan and famous eugenicist—tried to publish his first short story under the pseudonym NORMAL BEAN.
Presumably, this literary device would convince his readers that the writer had a phrenologically-ok head.
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Amazingly, Burroughs’s editor assumed that the name *had* to be "Norman Bean,” and published it that way.
Burroughs was so mad he gave up on his pseudonym entirely.
Source:
doi.org/10.1515/9780...
