Two readers have correctly pointed out two errors I had in my listing of “pen names” of various writers. Tom Wolfe’s and Oscar Wilde’s birth names were the same names under which they wrote. The “birth names” I had listed were their middle names. I found these names in a directory in which it appeared to me that the middle names were their birth names. I apologize for my errors, although I do take comfort in knowing that there is a healthy skepticism among LRC readers regarding what they read!

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