Do you italicize an authors name?

No, you never italicize the name of the author, and you only italicize the title of the work if it is a book. If you are referring to a short story you put the title of the story in quotes.

Can you have 2 legal names?

You can use two names, however you need to choose only one “legal” name and use it exclusively for things like your driver’s license, employment & income tax forms and filings, any contract you may execute, etc.

Can I use my middle name as my first?

On legal documents, you need to give your full first, middle and last names. It doesn’t make any difference what you “go by”. You can tell what you go by to people you know, but legal documents need your legal name.

How many legal names can you have?

The maximum length of names – including any spaces between names – that we can register is 50 characters each for the: family name. first given names. other given names or middle names.