Talk:Torey Hayden

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MS: Did you have a nickname when you were in school?

TH: Not really. My real first name is Victoria, so when I was little, I was called Vicki. I hated that name from the very start. It wasn’t “me”. Plus, it was a very popular name and one year there were five of us in my class alone! Since I was the only one whose full name was Victoria, I started going by Torey in my teens. I remember practicing different spellings for about six months before I settled on this one!

http://www.torey-hayden.com/interview.htm#7

The article starts "Torey Lynn Hayden (born May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA)" and I didn't know where to stick her first name, exactly. It could go by her pen name, or after the word "born" (except who knows if Hayden is her birth name?), and she never spells out her middle name on her book covers or copyright pages (in the books).

The article could start out "Torey L. Hayden (Victoria Lynn Hayden, born May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA)" but that still might make people think that's the name she was born with.

"Victoria Lynn Hayden, known as Torey L. Hayden (born May 21, 1951 in Livingston, Montana, USA)," might be good except she doesn't always use her middle initial. Her most recent books don't, which I suppose is the reason her Wikipedia page doesn't.

A-ha! On her research papers page http://www.torey-hayden.com/research.htm her name is Hayden, T. in 1980. I don't think she was married then, though I'm not positive. (I believe she wrote her first book soon after the events happened in 1979 and it was published the next year, and she was single in that book. Still doesn't prove that's her birth name [or legal name], though! I'm assuming it is, but it's not very encyclopedic to guess.)

I decided to be bold, though I'm more headachy than bold at the moment, and go with my last idea, but I think it looks oddly mismatched that the Wikipedia page name doesn't have the "L." and the text of the page does.

And I don't know how to do a redirect page for if people try to look her up with the "L."

anonymous persnickety worrywart 09:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)