This weekend, it was revealed that JK Rowling published a thriller earlier this year under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The book's sales climbed 507,000 percent on Amazon after her identity was blown. In the wake of the announcement, BBC News published a good story about famous literary pseudonyms. It's true that he's not British, but I'm a little surprised that the BBC didn't mention Stephen King, whose Richard Bachman was maybe the last pseudonym to come from a wildly successful pop fiction author.