List of pen names
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work.
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A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her other works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's name may be known only to the publisher, or may come to be common knowledge.
Pen name | Real name | Details | |
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A.A. Fair | Erle Stanley Gardner | One of several that he used | |
Aapeli | Simo Puupponen | 20th-century Finnish writer and chatty articler | |
Aaron Wolfe | Dean Koontz | ||
Abigail Van Buren | Pauline Phillips and then Jeanne Phillips | Mother and daughter advice columnists for Dear Abby | |
Abram Tertz | Andrei Sinyavsky | ||
Abu Nuwas | Hasin ibn Hani al Hakami | 8th-century Arabic language poet (Persia) | |
Acton Bell | Anne Brontë | ||
Adunis | Ali Ahmad Said Esber | ||
Æ | George William Russell | Irish poet and theosophist (1867 - 1935) | |
Alan Gould | Victor Canning | ||
Alan Smithee | various | Pen name used by American film directors under certain circumstances | |
Alberto Moravia | Alberto Pincherle | ||
Alcofribas Nasier | François Rabelais | ||
Alex Kava | Sharon M. Kava | American author of psychological suspense novels. | |
Alexander Kent | Douglas Reeman | ||
Algoth Tietäväinen | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author | |
Alice Addertongue | Benjamin Franklin | ||
Amanda Cross | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun | 20th-century American mystery writer | |
Amanda Quick | Jayne Ann Krentz | ||
Anatole France | Jacques Anatole François Thibault | 20th-century French author | |
Andrej Zivor | Andrej Tisma | ||
Andrew MacDonald | William Luther Pierce | ||
Ann Landers | Ruth Crowley and then Eppie Lederer | Advice columnists for Ask Ann Landers | |
Anne Chaplet | Cora Stephan | 20th-century German crime novelist and journalist | |
Anne Knish | Arthur Davison Ficke | Co-author of Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments | |
Anne Perry | Juliet Marion Hulme | ||
Anne Rice | Howard Allen Frances O'Brien | Other aliases: Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure | |
Anonymous | Joe Klein | Used to conceal his identity for the initial publication of the novel Primary Colors | |
Anthony Afterwit | Benjamin Franklin | ||
Anthony Boucher | William Anthony Parker White | American science fiction editor and writer of mystery novels and short stories | |
Anthony Burgess | John Anthony Burgess Wilson | 20th-century British writer | |
Anthony Gilbert | Lucy Beatrice Malleson | British author of the Arthur Crook crime fiction novels | |
Anthony Mills | William Joseph Slim | British military commander after writing novels, short stories, and other publications earlier in his career. | |
Anthony North | Dean Koontz | ||
Antosha Chekhonte | Anton Chekhov | 19th-century Russian physician and author, who also used the pseudonyms "Man Without a Spleen" and "My Brother's Brother"[1] | |
Arkon Daraul | Idries Shah | ||
Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne | 19th-century American humor writer | |
Asdreni | Aleksandër Stavre Drenova | 20th-century Albanian poet | |
Ayn Rand | Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum | 20th-century fiction writer and creator of the philosophy Objectivism | |
Azorín | José Martínez Ruiz | ||
B. Traven | unknown | 20th-century novelist, aka Bruno Traven | |
Ba Jin | Li Yaotang | 20th-century Chinese writer | |
Banaphul | Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy | Bengali author, playwright and poet | |
Barbara Michaels | Barbara Mertz | ||
Barbara Vine | Ruth Rendell | 21st-century British author who writes a subset of her work under this pseudonym | |
Bartholomew Gill | Mark C. McGarrity | American crime fiction novelist and newspaper feature writer, wrote 22 novels under pseudonym (Peter McGarr series), wrote under real name for six books (5 novels, 1 non-fiction) and for feature writing on nature and outdoor recreation topics for The Star-Ledger | |
BB | Denys Watkins-Pitchford | 20th-century illustrator and children's book author | |
Beachcomber | J. B. Morton and D. B. Wyndham Lewis | Used for the surrealist humorous column By the Way in the Daily Express | |
bell hooks | Gloria Jean Watkins | ||
Benevolus | Benjamin Franklin | ||
Berrintho | Robert Roberthin | 17th-century German poet | |
Blaise Cendrars | Frédéric Louis Sauser | ||
Bob Hart | Al Trace | ||
Boris Akunin | Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili | ||
Boz | Charles Dickens | 19th-century British novelist | |
Boz | Raymond "Boz" Burrell | ||
Branislav Nušić | Alkibijad Nuša | ||
Brian Coffey | Dean Koontz | ||
Brynjolf Bjarme | Henrik Ibsen | ||
Busy Body | Benjamin Franklin | ||
C. S. Forester | Cecil Smith | 20th-century writer of the Captain Horatio Hornblower novels, The African Queen, and other novels | |
Caelia Shortface | Benjamin Franklin | ||
Cantinflas | Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes | ||
Carr Dickson | John Dickson Carr | 20th-century author of detective stories | |
Carter Dickson | John Dickson Carr | 20th-century author of detective stories | |
Cassandra | William Connor | 20th-century left-wing journalist for The Daily Mirror | |
Cassandra Clare | Judith Rumelt | ||
Catherine Shaw | Leila Schneps | Author of mathematically themed classic murder mysteries | |
Chanakya | Jawaharlal Nehru | First Indian Prime Minister | |
Charles Moulton | William Moulton Marston | Creator of Wonder Woman comic book character | |
Charlotte Jay | Geraldine Halls | ||
Cherry Wilder | Cherry Barbara Grimm | ||
Cherubina de Gabriak | Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva | ||
Christopher Pike | Kevin Christopher McFadden | Prolific author of young-adult horror and sci-fi novels | |
Clem Watts | Al Trace | ||
Clive Hamilton | C. S. Lewis | Used when publishing Spirits in Bondage and Dymer | |
Cordwainer Smith | Paul M. A. Linebarger | 20th-century science fiction author | |
Currer Bell | Charlotte Brontë | ||
Curzio Malaparte | Kurt Erich Suckert | ||
Dan Crow | Ernest Aris | ||
Daniel Defoe | Daniel Foe | ||
Daniil Kharms | Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev | ||
Danuta de Rhodes | Dan Rhodes | ||
David Agnew | various | Pen name used by BBC television drama screenwriters under certain circumstances | |
David Axton | Dean Koontz | ||
David Michaels | Raymond Benson | ||
Dazai Osamu | Shuji Tsushima | ||
Deanna Dwyer | Dean Koontz | ||
Diablo Cody | Brook Busey | Screenwriter | |
Diedrich Knickerbocker | Washington Irving | Early 19th-century U.S. writer | |
Dominique Aury | Anne Desclos | 20th-century French author and critic who wrote under this name for her early works | |
Douglas Spaulding | Ray Bradbury | ||
Dr. Seuss | Theodor Seuss Geisel | 20th-century American writer and cartoonist, best known for his children's books, aka Theo LeSieg | |
E. L. James | Erika Leonard, born Erika Mitchell | Author of Fifty Shades of Grey | |
Eckhart Tolle | Ulrich Leonard Tolle | Author of The Power of Now | |
Ed McBain | Evan Hunter, born as Salvatore A. Lombino | ||
Edgar Box | Gore Vidal | ||
Edith Van Dyne | L. Frank Baum | ||
Edmond Dantès | John Hughes | 20th-century American screenwriter and director; used this name on later works | |
Edogawa Ranpo | Tarō Hirai | ||
Edward Charles | Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted | 20th-century British educator and author. | |
Edward Pygge | Ian Hamilton, John Fuller, Clive James, Russell Davies | ||
Edwin Caskoden | Charles Major | ||
Elia | Charles Lamb | The pen name Lamb used as a contributor to The London Magazine. | |
Elizabeth Peters | Barbara Mertz | ||
Ellery Queen | Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee | 20th-century detective fiction | |
Ellis Bell | Emily Brontë | ||
Ellis Peters | Edith Pargeter | ||
Elsa Triolet | Elsa Kagan | ||
Elsie J. Oxenham | Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley | ||
Emanuel Morgan | Witter Bynner | Co-author of Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments | |
Émile Ajar | Romain Gary | French author; only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, once under his real name, and once under his pen name | |
Emma Lathen | Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart | An economist/lawyer team write humorous banking mysteries with global scope | |
Enna Duval | Anne Hampton Brewster | ||
Eric Iverson | Harry Turtledove | ||
Erich Maria Remarque | Erich Paul Remark | ||
Erin Hunter | Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Victoria Holmes | Authors of the fantasy novel series Warriors | |
Euphrosyne | Julia Nyberg | ||
Fergie | Stacy Ann Ferguson | ||
Flann O'Brien | Brian O'Nolan | ||
Ford Madox Ford | Ford Hermann Hueffer | Early 20th-century English novelist and poet | |
Francis Bennett | Edwin Keppel Bennett | ||
Franklin W. Dixon | Leslie McFarlane | 20th-century Canadian writer was the first of a variety of different authors to use this pen name for The Hardy Boys novels | |
Françoise Sagan | Françoise Quoirez | ||
Gabriela Mistral | Lucila Godoy Alcayaga | Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945 | |
Geoffrey Crayon | Washington Irving | Used when publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. | |
George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans | 19th-century English novelist | |
George Groth | Martin Gardner | Criticized Gardner's The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener | |
George Orwell | Eric Arthur Blair | 20th-century British author and essayist | |
George Sand | Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin | 19th-century French novelist and early feminist | |
Georges Courteline | Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux | ||
Gérard de Nerval | Gérard Labrunie | 19th-century French poet, essayist and translator | |
Gerald Wiley | Ronnie Barker | ||
Grace Greenwood | Sara Jane Lippincott | ||
Grant Naylor | Rob Grant and Doug Naylor | Late 20th-century creators of the science fiction-sitcom, Red Dwarf | |
Guillaume Apollinaire | Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki | 20th-century French poet, writer, and art critic | |
Gulzar | Sampooran Singh Kalra | Noted Indian poet, lyricist, director, and playwright, who works primarily in Hindi and Urdu languages | |
H.D. | Hilda Doolittle | 20th-century American imagist poet, novelist and memoirist | |
H.E. Sayeh | Hushang Ebtehaj | 20th-century Iranian poet (هوشنگ ابتهاج) | |
H.N. Turtletaub | Harry Turtledove | ||
Hajime Yatate | various | Pen name of Sunrise animation staff members | |
Hans Fallada | Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen | German writer | |
Hard Pan | Geraldine Bonner | ||
Harold Robbins | Harold Rubin | ||
Havank | Hans van der Kallen | ||
Henriett Seth F. | Fajcsák Henrietta | ||
Henry Handel Richardson | Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson | Early 20th-century Australian author | |
Henry Wade | Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet | British mystery writer (1887-1969) | |
Herblock | Herbert Lawrence Block | 20th-century political cartoonist | |
Hergé | Georges Remi | 20th-century Belgian cartoonist and creator of The Adventures of Tintin | |
Hugh Conway | Frederick John Fargus | ||
Ibn Warraq | various | Pen name has traditionally been adopted by dissident authors throughout the history of Islam, including a current writer from India | |
Iceberg Slim | Robert Beck | African American writer | |
Ilkka Remes | Petri Pykälä | 20th- and 21st-century Finnish writer | |
Ilya Ilf | Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg | ||
Ion Barbu | Dan Barbilian | 20th-century Romanian poet and mathematician | |
Irmari Rantamala | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author | |
Irwin Shaw | Irwin Shamforoff | ||
Isak Dinesen | Karen Blixen | 20th-century Danish author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast | |
Italo Svevo | Aron Ettore Schmitz | ||
Iyanla Vanzant | Rhonda Eva Harris | author, spiritual teacher, and television personality. | |
J. D. Robb | Nora Roberts | ||
J. I. Vatanen | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author | |
J. K. Rowling | Joanne Rowling | British author of the Harry Potter books. | |
Jack Kirby | Jacob Kurtzberg | Comic book pioneer | |
James Dillinger | James Robert Baker | ||
James Herriot | James Alfred Wight | 20th-century British writer | |
James Tiptree, Jr. | Alice Bradley Sheldon | 20th-century science fiction author | |
Jane Somers | Doris Lessing | "The Diary of a Good Neighbour" and "If the Old Could..." | |
Janez Janša (visual artist), Janez Janša (director), and Janez Janša (performance artist) | various | Pen name used by three contemporary artists who changed their names in 2007[2] to the name of the Slovenian right-wing politician | |
Jay Livingston | Jacob Harold Levison | ||
Jean Paul | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | ||
Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Hibbert | ||
Jean Ray | Raymundus Joannes de Kremer | ||
Jeremy Bishop | Jeremy Robinson | ||
Jin Yong | Louis Cha Leung-yung | 20th-century Chinese-language novelist | |
Joe Hill | Joseph Hillstrom King | ||
Johann Joachim Sautscheck | Roman Turovsky-Savchuk | ||
Johannes de silentio | Søren Kierkegaard | ||
John Beynon | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris | ||
John Christopher | Samuel Youd | ||
John Hill | Dean Koontz | ||
John Lange | Michael Crichton | 20th-century science fiction author | |
John le Carré | David John Moore Cornwell | 20th-century British writer | |
John Sedges | Pearl S. Buck | Author of "The Townsman" | |
John Wyndham | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris | Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer | |
Jonathan Oldstyle | Washington Irving | Author of Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. | |
Joseph Conrad | Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski | 20th-century Polish-British author | |
Joseph Howard | Paul Rudnick | Screenwriting credit for Sister Act; he refused to have his real name associated with it | |
Josephine Tey | Elizabeth MacKintosh | 20th-century British writer, who also used the pseudonym "Gordon Daviot" | |
Juhani Tervapää | Hella Wuolijoki | 20th-century Estonian-born Finnish writer | |
Julia Quinn | Julia Pottinger | ||
K. Hardesh | Clement Greenberg | 20th-century American art critic | |
K. R. Dwyer | Dean Koontz | ||
Kate Elliott | Alis A. Rasmussen | 20th/21st-century fantasy author | |
Ka-Tsetnik 135633 | Yehiel De-Nur | ||
Kennilworthy Whisp | J. K. Rowling | Used for the publication of Quidditch Through the Ages, from the Harry Potter universe | |
Kir Bulychov | Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (Игорь Всеволодович Можейко) | 20th-century Russian science fiction writer and historian | |
Korney Chukovsky | Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov | ||
Kozma Prutkov | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov, and two others | Collective name who published in Sovremennik during 1836–1866 | |
Kurban Said | disputed | Author of Ali and Nino, a novel originally published in 1937 | |
Lauren Kelly | Joyce Carol Oates | Author of "Blood Mask", "The Stolen Heart", and "Take Me, Take Me With You". | |
Lazlo Toth | Don Novello | Author of the satiric The Lazlo Letters and other books; the name was taken from that of a deranged Hungarian-born Australian man named Laszlo Toth who vandalized Michelangelo's statue Pieta in Rome | |
Leigh Nichols | Dean Koontz | ||
Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler | Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events | |
Leslie Charteris | Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin | Half-Chinese, half-English author of primarily mystery fiction such as the Simon Templar series | |
Lester del Rey | Leonard Knapp | American science fiction author and editor | |
Lewis Allan | Abel Meeropol | ||
Lewis Carroll | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | 19th-century British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | |
Lewis Padgett | Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore | American husband and wife science fiction authors | |
Liisan-Antti ja Jussi Porilainen | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author | |
Lobsang Rampa | Cyril Henry Hoskin | The author of The Third Eye, a supposedly authentic autobiography of a monk born in Tibet, was unmasked as a British plumber who had decided in 1958 to write the bestseller. | |
Lorenzo Da Ponte | Emmanuele Conegliano | ||
Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Louis-Ferdinand Destouches | ||
Lu Xun | Zhou Shuren | 20th-century Chinese writer and cultural critic | |
Lydia Koidula | Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen | ||
M. Barnard Eldershaw | Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw | ||
Maarten Maartens | Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz | ||
Maddox | George Ouzounian | American author known for his website The Best Page in the Universe | |
Madeleine Brent | Peter O'Donnell | ||
Maiju Lassila | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author | |
Maironis | Jonas Mačiulis | ||
Mao Dun | Shen Dehong | 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist | |
Mark Brandis | Nikolai von Michalewsky | ||
Mark Twain | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | 19th-century American humorist, author, and lecturer | |
Martha Careful | Benjamin Franklin | ||
Marton Taiga | Martti Löfberg | 20th-century Finnish pulp writer, who also used several other pseudonyms | |
Mary Westmacott | Agatha Christie | 20th-century British writer | |
Max Stirner | Johann Kaspar Schmidt | 19th-century German philosopher | |
Maxwell Grant | Primarily Walter B. Gibson, shared with Theodore Tinsley, Bruce Elliott and Lester Dent | Author of The Shadow pulp novellas | |
Megan Lindholm | Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden | 20th-century fantasy author | |
Mencius Moldbug | Curtis Yarvin | 21st-century political theorist | |
Michael Arlen | Dikran Kuyumjian | ||
Michael Innes | J. I. M. Stewart | ||
Michael Serafian | Malachi Martin | ||
Migjeni | Millosh Gjergj Nikolla | 20th-century Albanian poet | |
Miss Manners | Judith Martin | Author, columnist, and etiquette authority | |
Molière | Jean Baptiste Poquelin | 17th-century French theatre writer, director and actor, and writer of comic satire | |
Mr. Blackwell | Richard Sylvan Selzer | Fashion critic, journalist, creator of annual "Ten Worst Dressed Women List". Also used the alias "Richard Blackwell". | |
Multatuli | Eduard Douwes Dekker | Dutch writer known for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) | |
Murray Leinster | William Fitzgerald Jenkins | 20th-century science fiction author | |
N. W. Clerk | C. S. Lewis | Used when publishing A Grief Observed | |
Nancy Boyd | Edna St. Vincent Millay | ||
Natsume Sōseki | Natsume Kinnosuke | Early 20th-century Japanese novelist | |
Newt Scamander | J. K. Rowling | Used for the publication of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, from the Harry Potter universe | |
Nicci French | Nicci Gerard and Sean French | British crime fiction team | |
Nicolas Blake | Cecil Day-Lewis | Poet Laureate of the U.K., 20 mysteries written as Nicolas Blake | |
Nicolas Bourbaki | various | A group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians | |
Nino Culotta | John O'Grady | Australian writer | |
Nisa | Nicola Salerno | Italian lyricist | |
Novalis | Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg | ||
O. Henry | William Sydney Porter | American author of short stories and novels | |
Ogdred Weary | Edward Gorey | ||
Omer Tarin | Omar Salim Khan | Pakistani poet, scholar and Sufi mystic | |
Onoto Watanna | Winnifred Eaton | Canadian author | |
Ouida | Marie Louise de la Ramée | 19th-century English novelist | |
Owen West | Dean Koontz | ||
P. L. Travers | Helen Goff | Writer of the Mary Poppins series. | |
P. Mustapää | Martti Haavio | 20th-century Finnish poet | |
Pablo Neruda | Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto | 20th-century Chilean poet, Nobel laureate | |
Pat Frank | Harry Hart Frank | 20th-century author of the apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon | |
Patience Strong | Winifred Emma May | 20th-century English poet | |
Paul Annixter | Howard Allison Sturtzel | ||
Paul Celan | Paul Antschel | ||
Paul Éluard | Eugène Grindel | 20th-century French Dada and Surrealist poet | |
Paul French | Isaac Asimov | U.S. science fiction author, when publishing the Lucky Starr series of novels | |
Pauline Réage | Anne Desclos | 20th-century French author and critic who wrote Story of O | |
Perez Hilton | Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. | Celebrity blogger and gossip columnist | |
Peter Gast | Heinrich Köselitz | ||
Peter MacAlan | Peter Berresford Ellis | 20th-century British novelist | |
Peter Tremayne | Peter Berresford Ellis | 20th-century British novelist | |
Peyo | Pierre Culliford | 20th-century creator of The Smurfs comics | |
Philip Guston | Phillip Goldstein | ||
Pierre Loti | Louis Marie Julien Viaud | ||
Piers Anthony | Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob | ||
Pisanus Fraxi | Henry Spencer Ashbee | 19th-century book collector, writer, bibliographer, and author of a three-volume bibliography of erotic literature | |
Polly Baker | Benjamin Franklin | ||
Premchand | Dhanpat Rai Srivastav | An Indian author, notable for his modern Hindustani literature | |
Professor X | unknown | 21st-century author of In the Basement of the Ivory Tower | |
Pseudonymous Bosch | unknown | Author of the The Secret Series, fictional children's books | |
Q | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Late 19th- and early 20th-century British author, poet, and literary critic | |
Quinn Fawcett | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett | American mystery authors | |
Raccoona Sheldon | Alice Bradley Sheldon | 20th-century science fiction author | |
Rehmat Farrukhabadi | Muhammad Rehmatullah Qureshi | Author and Muslim scholar | |
Rhys Bowen | Janet Quin-Harkin | British mystery writer | |
Richard Bachman | Stephen King | Contemporary American horror author | |
Richard Leander | Richard von Volkmann | ||
Richard Paige | Dean Koontz | ||
Richard Saunders | Benjamin Franklin | The "Poor Richard" of Poor Richard's Almanac | |
Richard Stark | Donald E. Westlake | Westlake used many other pen names as well. | |
Robert Galbraith | J. K. Rowling | Used for the publication of The Cuckoo's Calling | |
Robert Jordan | James Oliver Rigney, Jr. | Author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series | |
Robert Markham | Kingsley Amis | ||
Robert Tressell | Robert Croker | ||
Robert O. Saber | Milton K. Ozaki | Mid-20th-century journalist, author and detective novelist (Dressed to Kill (1954) and many others) | |
Robin A Hood | Ernest Aris | ||
Robin Hobb | Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden | 20th-century fantasy author | |
Roger Fairbairn | John Dickson Carr | ||
Romain Gary | Romain Kacew | ||
Rosamond Smith | Joyce Carol Oates | Novels include "Nemesis", "Lives of the Twins", "Soul Mate", "Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon", "The Barrens", "Snake Eyes", "You Can't Catch Me", "Kindred Passions", and "Double Delight". | |
Rosemary Edghill | eluki bes shahar | American writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy | |
Ross Franklyn | Frank Hardy | Left-wing Australian writer best known for his novel Power Without Glory | |
S. S. Van Dine | Willard Huntington Wright | Art critic and author of Philo Vance mysteries | |
Saint-John Perse | Alexis Saint-Léger Léger | ||
Saki | Hector Hugh Munro | Early 20th-century British satirist | |
Salomėja Nėris | Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė | ||
Sannois | Camille Saint-Saëns | ||
Sapper | H. C. McNeile | ||
Sapphire | Ramona Lofton | 21st-century African-American poet and author | |
Shahriar | Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar | Iranian poet, writing in Persian and Azerbaijani | |
Shawn Haigins | Ashwin Sanghi | Indian writer of historical fiction thrillers including The Rozabal Line and Chanakya's Chant (Shawn Haigins is an anagram of Ashwin Sanghi) | |
Sidney Sheldon | Sidney Schechtel | Novelist and television producer. Created I Dream of Jeannie television series | |
Silence Dogood | Benjamin Franklin | Used to get his work published | |
Sister Nivedita | Margaret Elizabeth Noble | ||
Sjón | Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson | Icelandic novelist, poet, lyricist | |
Stan Lee | Stanley Martin Lieber | Comic book pioneer | |
Steele Rudd | Arthur Hoey Davis | ||
Stefan Brockhoff | Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin | ||
Stein Riverton | Sven Elvestad | Born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen | |
Stendhal | Marie-Henri Beyle | 19th-century French writer | |
Student | William Sealy Gosset | Discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics | |
Sue Denim | Dav Pilkey | Writer and illustrator of the Captain Underpants children's book series, when author of the Dumb Bunnies books (Sue Denim is a parody of the word pseudonym) | |
Sui Sin Far | Edith Maude Eaton | ||
T. H. Lain | Philip Athans and Bruce Cordell | A collective pseudonym used by nine separate authors writing Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons novels | |
T. M. Maple | Jim Burke | ||
Ted L. Nancy | Barry Marder and Bruce Baum | Authors of the Letters from a Nut series | |
Theo LeSieg | Theo Geisel (Dr. Seuss) | ||
Thoinot Arbeau | Jehan Tabourot | ||
Timothy Shy | D. B. Wyndham Lewis | 20th-century British poet and author, collaborated with Ronald Searle on The Terror of St Trinian's | |
Tite Kubo | Noriaki Kubo | Manga artist of Bleach | |
Toegye | Yi Hwang | 16th-century Korean Confucian scholar | |
Tom Tomorrow | Dan Perkins | 20th-century editorial cartoonist | |
Tori Carrington | Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni | American husband and wife romance novelists | |
Trevanian | Rodney William Whitaker | 20th-century American spy novelist | |
Tristan Tzara | Sami Rosenstock | ||
Tudor Arghezi | Ion N. Theodorescu | 20th-century Romanian poet and children's author | |
Uanhenga Xitu | Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho | ||
Umberto Saba | Umberto Poli | ||
Uriah Fuller | Martin Gardner | Wrote Confessions of a Psychic | |
Väinö Stenberg | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author | |
Vazha | Luka Razikashvili | ||
Vera Haij | Tove Jansson | Author of the picture book Sara och Pelle och näckens bläckfiskar | |
Vercors | Jean Bruller | ||
Vernon Sullivan | Boris Vian | ||
Victoria Lucas | Sylvia Plath | Poet and author of The Bell Jar | |
Vladimir Sirin | Vladimir Nabokov | 20th-century novelist; used this name on early works | |
Voltaire | François-Marie Arouet | 18th-century French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher | |
W. N. P. Barbellion | Bruce Frederick Cummings | 20th-century diarist | |
Walter | Henry Spencer Ashbee | 19th-century book collector, writer, bibliographer, and suspected author of My Secret Life, the sexual memoirs of a Victorian era gentleman | |
Wang Shiwei (王實味) | Wang Sidao (王思禱) | 20th-century Chinese journalist and literary writer | |
William Lee | William S. Burroughs | American novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer. | |
William Penn | Jeremiah Evarts | 19th-century activist against Indian removal | |
Willibald Alexis | Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring | ||
Wiz Khalifa | Cameron Jibril Thomaz | African American rap artist | |
Woody Allen | Allen Stewart Konigsberg | ||
Yevgeny Petrov | Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev | ||
Yukio Mishima | Hiraoka Kimitake | 20th-century Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright | |
Yulgok | Yi I | 16th-century Korean Confucian scholar |
See also
- List of pseudonyms
- List of pseudonyms of angling authors
- List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames
- List of works published under a pseudonym
References
- ↑ "A gem from the Man Without a Spleen". The Guardian. London.
- ↑ Webpage about the official name change Archived August 17, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
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