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BeforeRoosh V, born Daryush Valizadeh, is an American writer and blogger who built an audience through books and websites focused on dating advice and masculinity. He was a notable figure in the manosphere online community during the 2000s and 2010s.
AfterRoosh V is the pen name of a self-published American author and blogger who wrote dating and travel books, founded the website Return of Kings, and in May 2019 withdrew most of those books from sale, saying he no longer wanted his work used to lead men into what he called sin. The Library of Congress name authority file records the authorized heading "Vörek, Roosh" with "Valizadeh, Daryush" and "Roosh Valizadeh" as variants, its evidence being the title pages of his own books: *A Dead Bat In Paraguay* (2010), which bears "Roosh Vörek", and *Free Speech Isn't Free* (2016), which bears "Roosh …