It has to do with sexism.
where she revealed a particularly infuriating experience: her publishers actually tried to hide her gender from readers. Yep, seriously.
While explaining why she writes under her initials, J.K. — whose real name is Joanne — revealed: "My publisher, who published, they said to me, we think this is a book that will appeal to boys and girls. And I said, oh, great. And they said, so could we use your initials?" The author went on to explain that the publishers were basically trying to "disguise" the fact that she was a woman simply because her book "might appeal" to all genders. But, as J.K.
Despite the fact that she likes her initials, J.K. pointed out that she wouldn't have chosen them for that same reason. At the same time, she was just happy to be published that she was willing to write under any name she had to. "If they told me to call myself Rupert, I probably would have done to be honest with you," she told Christiane Amanpour, adding: "But now, I actually quite like having a pen name, because I feel that's...
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