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This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Dodie Smith (1896–1990), The Hundred and One Dalmatians; Emma Smith (1923–2018), Maidens' Trip; Jonathan Smith (born 1942) Stevie Smith (1902–1971) Zadie Smith (born 1975), White Teeth; C. P. Snow (1905–1980), Strangers and Brothers series; Stephen Southwold (1887–1964), science fiction and other novels; Emily Spender (1841–1922 ...
Robert F. Smith (investor) (born 1962 as Robert Frederick Smith), American investor, the founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners Robert Freeman Smith (1931–2020), American politician Robert Farrell Smith (born 1970), American Latter-day Saint humor writer
Robert Farrell Smith (born 1970) is an American humor writer. Starting in 2005, he publishes children's books under the pseudonym Obert Skye . [ 1 ] He is known for the Leven Thumps series, the Pillage trilogy, [ 1 ] and The Creature from My Closet series.
In 2010, Smith received the Ripple of Hope Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. [111] In 2014, he received an honorary doctorate from Huston-Tillotson University. [112] In 2016, Cornell University named the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering after him, following a donation.
[26] The novel did not sell well at first, but the City University of New York put The Bluest Eye on its reading list for its new Black studies department, as did other colleges, which boosted sales. [27] The book also brought Morrison to the attention of the acclaimed editor Robert Gottlieb at Knopf, an imprint of the publisher Random House ...
Zadie Smith was born on 25 October 1975 [3] in Willesden [4] to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith, [5] who was 30 years his wife's senior. [6] At the age of 14, she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie. [7] Smith's mother grew up in Jamaica and emigrated to England in 1969. [3] Smith's parents divorced when ...
And other 3 names, Ollia, Olina, and Olybana." [citation needed] Ælfric of Eynsham's Anglo-Saxon translation of the Heptateuch (c. 1000) included illustrations with the wives' names recorded in the captions. One such illustration (fol. 17) names Noah's wife as Phiapphara, Shem's as Parsia, Ham's as Cataphua, and Japheth's as Fura. [14]