There was an author I came across when I was searching through the likes of Thomas Pynchon, and it was said he would use something like "D----" to denote a person's name, using the first letter only. In his novels, the characters were thus victims of their naming in a way. I only ever came across it briefly, and I have since been unable to locate this author's name. I think he is a recent author, publishing around the 1980s or later. Can anyone help?