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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 ...
Authors who write both fiction and non-fiction, or in different genres, may use different pen names to avoid confusing their readers. For example, the romance writer Nora Roberts writes mystery novels under the name J. D. Robb. In some cases, an author may become better known by his pen name than their real name.
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.
Go Ask Alice, now known to have been written by Beatrice Sparks. A Woman in Berlin, an anonymous diary detailing experiences of a German woman as Germany is defeated in World War II. Primary Colors, published anonymously. Journalist Joe Klein was immediately suspected as the author. He originally denied it, but admitted authorship within six ...
Two of his best-known novels — "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which was adapted into a film of the same name and won five Academy Awards, and "Sometimes a Great Notion" — were both set in ...
This was the first book Balzac released under his own name, and it gave him what one critic called "passage into the Promised Land". [24] It established him as an author of note (even if its historical fiction-genre imitates that of Sir Walter Scott ) and provided him with a name outside his past pseudonyms.
Unbeknownst to each other, former neighbors in Franklin Lakes wrote books about 9/11, and their personal quest to understand it.