In "Misery", what is the name of the author held captive by Annie Wilkes?

In Misery, the author held captive by Annie Wilkes is Paul Sheldon.\n\nSheldon is a successful novelist best known for a series of Victorian-era romance books about Misery Chastain. At the beginning of the story, he has killed off Misery and completed a new manuscript, hoping to move beyond the commercially successful series.\n\nA car accident in a remote part of Colorado leaves Sheldon with severely broken legs. Annie Wilkes, a former nurse and devoted reader who calls herself his “number one fan,” rescues him and takes him to her isolated home instead of notifying a hospital. She soon becomes his jailer.\n\nWhen Annie discovers that Misery has died, she forces Sheldon to write a new novel reviving the character. His captivity turns the familiar writer-and-fan relationship into a psychological horror story about control, addiction, authorship, and obsessive fandom. The character is not Stephen King himself, although Sheldon reflects some of King’s feelings about commercial expectations and the pressure to write popular horror. The story was first published as a novel in 1987 and adapted into a 1990 film.