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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 ...
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.
Blake published her first YA novel, My Mechanical Romance, in 2022 via Holiday House, under her legal name, Alexene Farol Follmuth. [11] My Mechanical Romance revolves around women in STEM , and was inspired by the author's husband, who is a high school physics teacher.
Erin Hunter is a collective pseudonym used by the authors Victoria Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Clarissa Hutton, Inbali Iserles, Tui T. Sutherland, and Rosie Best in the writing of several children's fantasy novel series which focus on animals and their adventures.
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 ...
Wuxia (武俠, literally "martial arts and chivalry") is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Although wuxia is traditionally a form of historical fantasy literature, its popularity has caused it to be adapted for such diverse art forms as Chinese opera, manhua, television dramas, films, and video games.