My Brief Email Exchange With a Famous Novelist

You usually cannot get a famous novelist’s personal email address, but this novelist was a college professor and the college published the email addresses of its faculty members.  Most colleges no longer do this for their famous faculty members.

The famous novelist called my first blog post (on Charles Dickens) “engaging” and started to sign her emails in a different way.

Unfortunately, it was only after that email exchange was over that I realized what had happened.  Her switch in names had been a switch in personalities.  But I was never able to contact her again.