I suspect he was 'told' by the people publishing his stories that he 'needed to be under a different name'. Which is a thing that publishers are STILL doing to this day. I suspect it's so they can pay the author less, but I've talked with authors who went through this, QUIT writing because of it as well, because they could never gain a following and make good money.
Then of course Indy came about and they brought back all of their stuff, under their own name, with the tag line 'Writing as <penname>' And, all of the sudden, they started making serious money as enough people remembered their pen names that they were able to bring their scattered fans together.
Reading his wikipedia entry I had to scowl at the line about arkhaven continually promising to publish him, but never getting around to it. Yeah, that's called 'stringing him along' and only evil people do that.
I suspect he was 'told' by the people publishing his stories that he 'needed to be under a different name'. Which is a thing that publishers are STILL doing to this day. I suspect it's so they can pay the author less, but I've talked with authors who went through this, QUIT writing because of it as well, because they could never gain a following and make good money.
Then of course Indy came about and they brought back all of their stuff, under their own name, with the tag line 'Writing as <penname>' And, all of the sudden, they started making serious money as enough people remembered their pen names that they were able to bring their scattered fans together.
Reading his wikipedia entry I had to scowl at the line about arkhaven continually promising to publish him, but never getting around to it. Yeah, that's called 'stringing him along' and only evil people do that.
Part of it was that they didn't like having the same byline in a magazine more than once.
But there was at the time the Kuttner Syndrome where new writers would be taken as a new byline for him and C.L. Moore.
Kuttner didn't live long but he authored plenty of great short fiction works, on his own, with others and under various pseudonyms.
Mostly with his wife, and with a shocking number of pen names. Nearly thirty, I think.