JK Rowling’s pen name is a reference to Robert Galbraith Heath, a psychiatrist who experimented with gay conversion therapy in the 60s and 70s using surgically implanted electrodes on gay men’s brains.
Unless thats some conservative dog whistle I don’t know about, (and I’m no JKR apologist) your statement directly contradicts her own official answer as to the origin of the name:
Why the name Robert Galbraith?
I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy
is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the
Potter series or The Casual Vacancy.
Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child,
I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why.
I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because
I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may,
the name had a fascination for me. I actually considered calling
myself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious
reasons decided that initials were a bad idea.
Odder still, there was a well-known economist called
J K Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was
far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take
this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody
was looking that deeply at the author’s name.
It’s British slang for a convict or prison term. It’s not very common now, but “old lag” used to mean a habitual criminal. No idea of the etymology though - maybe related to a lag (in time)?
Unless thats some conservative dog whistle I don’t know about, (and I’m no JKR apologist) your statement directly contradicts her own official answer as to the origin of the name:
Why the name Robert Galbraith?
I chose Robert because it’s one of my favourite men’s names, because Robert F Kennedy is my hero and because, mercifully, I hadn’t used it for any of the characters in the Potter series or The Casual Vacancy. Galbraith came about for a slightly odd reason. When I was a child, I really wanted to be called ‘Ella Galbraith’, and I’ve no idea why. I don’t even know how I knew that the surname existed, because I can’t remember ever meeting anyone with it. Be that as it may, the name had a fascination for me. I actually considered calling myself L A Galbraith for the Strike series, but for fairly obvious reasons decided that initials were a bad idea. Odder still, there was a well-known economist called J K Galbraith, something I only remembered by the time it was far too late. I was completely paranoid that people might take this as a clue and land at my real identity, but thankfully nobody was looking that deeply at the author’s name.source
What’s wrong with LAG other than computer lag?
It’s British slang for a convict or prison term. It’s not very common now, but “old lag” used to mean a habitual criminal. No idea of the etymology though - maybe related to a lag (in time)?