![]() ![]() Bachman’s true identity was revealed in 1985 when an employee at a Washington, DC book shop noted similarities between King and Bachman’s work and “outed” him. ![]() But King was particularly prolific in his early years and managed to persuade his American publishers, Signet Books, to issue five books – Rage (1977) 1, The Long Walk (1979), Roadwork (1981), The Running Man (1982) and Thinner (1984) – under the Bachman pseudonym, the company using a photograph of Richard Manuel, insurance agent to King’s agent Kirby McCauley, on the back of the books. ![]() At the time that Bachman first appeared, it was commonly though in publishing circles that authors should be limited to one book a year, the belief being that consumers would rapidly grow tired of and distrusting of an writer who was cranking out books at a faster rate. Between 19, seven novels were published by “Richard Bachman” who turned out to be a pseudonym for horror writer Stephen King, his name supposedly having been taken from the Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a particular favourite of King’s at the time. ![]()
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