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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 ...
A collective name, also known as a house name, is published under one pen name for works by the same publishing house even though more than one author may have contributed to the series. Novellas and paperback books credited to Maxwell Grant , featuring the adventures of The Shadow , were written largely by Walter B. Gibson but other writers ...
Katherine Addison, pen name for Sarah Monette, author of The Goblin Emperor; Tomi Adeyemi (born 1993), author of the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy; Alexandra Adornetto (born 1992), author of The Strangest Adventures series; Joan Aiken (1924–2004), author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase; Tim Akers (born 1972) Wendy Alec, author of the Chronicles ...
Alexene Farol Follmuth, known by her pen name Olivie Blake, is an American writer who primarily writes fantasy novels, and is best known for The Atlas Six (2020), a New York Times best seller. [1] [2]
A pseudonym is a name adopted by a person for a particular purpose, which differs from their true name. A pseudonym may be used by social activists or politicians for political purposes or by others for religious purposes. It may be a soldier's nom de guerre or an author's nom de plume.
Morris's work represented an important milestone in the history of fantasy, as while other writers wrote of foreign lands or of dream worlds, Morris was the first to set his stories in an entirely invented world. [46] Authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde also contributed to the development of fantasy with their writing of horror ...
English PEN is a membership organisation, with a community of more than 1,000 members including novelists, journalists, nonfiction writers, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, human rights activists, and readers. [22] English PEN membership is open to all who subscribe to the aims outlined in the PEN Charter ...
He was writing a quarter of a million words a month" [12] under many different pseudonyms [13] including about 200 erotic novels published as Don Elliott. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In a 2000 interview, Silverberg explained that the erotic fiction "... was undertaken at a time when I was saddled with a huge debt, at the age of 26, for a splendid house that ...