Author associated with a book not his own

[Vilma]

Hi,

I have just noticed that this David Mitchell

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

has this book "Women On The Warpath"

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...

on his dashboard which he definitely has not written. It is clearly misplaced as he is born in 1969 while the book was first published in 1965.

I assume the author is David J. Mitchell

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

but I lack proof. The only source I have is a worldcat link

http://www.worldcat.org/title/women-o...

It would fit his other titles but that is just a guess on my side. Maybe somebody could straighten this out? Thanks

[Vicky]

I've moved it over to David J. Mitchell, it looks convincing enough that he's the author to me. :)

[Vilma]

Vicky wrote: "I've moved it over to David J. Mitchell, it looks convincing enough that he's the author to me. :)"

Thank you Vicky :)

[Vilma]

I have had just a second look on the author profile and there are books too which are not his own. The fist five(The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, Ghostwritten, Black Swan Green) he has written but the rest - apart from translations - are misplaced too. Sorry, didnt check it earlier and dont have a clue who the real author is, another David Mitchell, but which one?

Official website: http://www.thousandautumns.com/

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mi...

It looks like this profile needs a truckload of work.

[Vicky]

Oh yikes, there are 18 different David Mitchells.

I'll bookmark this to look at tomorrow if no one gets there first.

[Banjomike]

Vicky wrote: "Oh yikes, there are 18 different David Mitchells.

I'll bookmark this to look at tomorrow if no one gets there first."

So is there an alternative to David^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Mitchell?

[[deleted user]]

The David^Mitchell's combine page is cleaned up now.

The list of David^Mitchell's contributions:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/...
needs some cleaning too.

There should be a law that restrains the writers from using too usual names and surnames :P

[Vilma]

Thank you :) As I am a fan of THIS David Mitchell it is now more pleasant to look at his author profile and at his books without all the "wrong" ones.

One more request in this: Noticed somebody has added recently an Russian edition of "Cloud Atlas" which needs to be combined and it lacks a description too.

Russian edition: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16...
Original: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49...

A neverending task it is...

[Banjomike]

I think two of us were working there. Anyway, combined and Russian blurb added.

I wonder if it would make sense if a librarian posted a message to say that he/she was taking on a particular task?

[Riona]

Luisa wrote: "There should be a law that restrains the writers from using too usual names and surnames :P "

Heh, it should be like Actors' Equity where you need to have a unique name to join. Hence why so many Broadway actors use their middle names.

[Beth]

Banjomike wrote: "I think two of us were working there. Anyway, combined and Russian blurb added.

I wonder if it would make sense if a librarian posted a message to say that he/she was taking on a particular task?"

It does help!