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> J.K. Rowling published a book called The Cuckoo’s Calling under the pen name Robert Galbraith only to be outed by someone performing advanced text analysis with a computer.

That is highly misleading. She was outed by a person with inside knowledge (anonymous tip), which was confirmed by automated text analysis.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-did-comput...

Rowling's identity was uncovered when a family friend of her solicitors tweeted it out.

> The Harry Potter author released her first Robert Galbraith novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, in April 2013 under the guise of a very British sounding man who was said to have previously served in the army. But her nom-de-plume was uncovered three months later after an indiscreet tweet divulging the true identity of Galbraith was sent by “@JudeCallegari”, a family friend of Christopher Gossage, a partner at Rowling’s solicitors.

Some people would suggest that the book was doing poorly, and needed a sales bump.