Best author names - a collection

I don't think I've posted a comprehensive list of amazing author names I've found in our catalogue in the past, so I wanted to do that now! Some of these names I have mentioned before, but not very many.

So, without further ado, here are some of my favourite author names discovered in our system:

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Authors with BEST names

• Beaglehole, T. H.
• Bignold, H. B. (Hugh Baron), 1870-
• Blanco White, T. A. (Thomas Anthony)
• T. A. white white!
• Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674
• only funny because I say "cressy" instead of "crazy"
• Dickhut, Harold
• Gawkrodger, D. J. (David J.)
• Hankey, Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, Baron, 1877-1963
• Hurtig, Howard I.
• only funny because my mum says words like she's got a cold for a joke, e.g. "hurting" = "hurtig", "Bunnings" = "Buddigs"
• Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972
• Louis Leakey!
• Oldcorn, Roger
• Powdermaker, Hortense, 1903-1970
• Sherwood, Polycarp, 1912-
• Shivers, Alfred S.
• Smith, Mortimer Brewster, 1906-
• Sox, Harold C.
• Wanklyn, William McConnel, 1866-1929
• Whitehead, Evelyn Eaton
• Willoughby, Westel Woodbury, 1867-1945
• Woodson, R. Dodge (Roger Dodge), 1955-

Question: Is your name as cool as any of these?