In "Gerald's Game", what is the name of the husband who dies at the beginning?

In "Gerald’s Game," the husband who dies at the beginning is Gerald Burlingame.

Gerald is a successful lawyer who takes his wife, Jessie Burlingame, to their secluded lake house in western Maine for a private getaway. He handcuffs Jessie to the bed as part of a sexual game, but she becomes frightened and asks him to stop. When he ignores her protests, she kicks him, triggering a fatal heart attack.

Gerald’s death leaves Jessie trapped, handcuffed to the bed, with little hope that anyone will notice her absence. The survival story that follows combines physical danger with psychological horror: thirst, panic, hallucinated voices, repressed memories, and the possibility that a strange figure is moving around the isolated house.

Stephen King published the novel in 1992. It is often discussed alongside Dolores Claiborne because both books involve women in crisis and were originally conceived with a connection involving a solar eclipse. The 2017 Netflix film adaptation stars Bruce Greenwood as Gerald and Carla Gugino as Jessie, making Gerald Burlingame the character’s canonical full name in both the novel’s reference material and adaptation.