Sunday, November 2, 2008

Some Pseudonyms and Pen names

Mary Ann Evans b. 1819 pen name George Eliot wrote Silas Marner and other novels

Clive Staples Lewis known as C.S. Lewis author of The Chronicles of Narnia

Charles L. Dogson pen name is Lewis Carroll author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland published in 1865

Samuel Clemens b. 1835 known as Mark Twain author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and other
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) used pen name Sieur Louis de Conte for his fictional biography of Joan of Arc

Leonard Slye known as Roy Rogers b. Cincinnati raised in Scioto County

Theodor Geisel 1904-1991 pen name is Dr. Seuss

Marshall Mathers b.1972 American singer known as Eminem

David Cornwell pen name is John Le Carre author of popular spy novels

Stephan King pen name Richard Bachman for many of his early works including The Long Walk and Roadwork

James Oliver Rigney, Jr.b.1948 is the real name Robert Jordan best known for Wheel of Time fantasy series

William Sidney Porter 1862-1910 pen name is O. Henry

Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790 used the pen name Silence Dogood for some of his publications
Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard's Almanac in 1732 under the name Richard Saunders

Nora Roberts b. 1950 (romance novelist) writes In Death novels (futuristic science-fiction police procedurals) under the pseudonym J. D. Robb
Also writes under the name Jill March and by error was published in the UK as Sarah
Hardesty

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