Authors who don't use quotation marks: why?

ya because jock can mean an athlete, a dj or a hobbyist, but his is probably just a term of endearment, like a diminutive of his real name

Nonetheless, odd to have it in quotation marks on the cover, and spine, of a book? His real name is William btw. Was, rather.

i know what you're saying

it does seem strange

there are people in my family whose nicknames have no relationship to their given names though

like maybe it arose from a funny incident that became legendary in the davidson family

i think in summary: he's doing the usual thing of putting a nickname in quotations but unusually not putting his actual given name before it and also putting it on a book cover.

also is the possessive part of the full title or is that another irregularity from this exceedingly irregular fellow