Aside: As an American, I’ve often been quite surprised to find out that authors were British (if I read the books before I got background on the author.) My reaction is “British? It can’t be!” This has happened with Alan Moore, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, and Charles Stross. I wonder when my brain will figure out that not everyone who’s fun to read is from my home country.
Americans who learn music from British rock bands too. The British learn it from the Americans then sell it back to them better. That’s why it’s always fun to see Alan Moore writing in what’s quite definitely British rather than in American.
(And Neil Gaiman married an American, his children are American and he’s lived in America for many years.)
Aside: As an American, I’ve often been quite surprised to find out that authors were British (if I read the books before I got background on the author.) My reaction is “British? It can’t be!” This has happened with Alan Moore, Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, and Charles Stross. I wonder when my brain will figure out that not everyone who’s fun to read is from my home country.
Americans who learn music from British rock bands too. The British learn it from the Americans then sell it back to them better. That’s why it’s always fun to see Alan Moore writing in what’s quite definitely British rather than in American.
(And Neil Gaiman married an American, his children are American and he’s lived in America for many years.)