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A large number of authors choose to use some form of initials in their name when it appears in their literary work. This includes some of the most famous authors of the 20th century – D. H. Lawrence, J. D. Salinger, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, etc. – and also a host of lesser-known writers.
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 ...
Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven: 800 British J. K. Rowling: 600 million [13] 600 million [13] English young adult, fantasy, crime fiction, including the Harry Potter series 22 British Sidney Sheldon: 370 million [14] 600 million [15] English Suspense: 21 American Eiichiro Oda: 516.6 million [16] 523.2 million [c ...
Norton Anthology of Literature by Women; Top of page. Lists by publisher. List of Alfred A. Knopf authors; List of Minerva Press authors; Top of page. See also.
A. Hannah Abbott (Harry Potter)Agnes (The Vampire Diaries and The Originals)Aja (The Vampire Diaries)Homura Akemi/Homulilly (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)Alexis (The Vampire Diaries)
Lists of literary characters by writers (3 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Lists of literary characters" ... List of people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic legend;
Many authors will use quotations from literature as the title for their works. This may be done as a conscious allusion to the themes of the older work or simply because the phrase seems memorable. The following is a partial list of book titles taken from literature. It does not include phrases altered for parody.
A pioneering literary figure, possibly for the style or substance of their entire body of work, or for a single novel that was a notable "first" of some kind in U.S. literary history. Had several massive bestsellers, or even just one huge seller that has entered the cultural lexicon (Grace Metalious and Peyton Place, for example).