What's in a name? Well, you'd be surprised actually. For centuries, writers have created pen names to publish their literary works. A pen name, also known as a nom de plume or a pseudonym ...

The Oxford Dictionary defines a pseudonym as “a fictitious name, especially one used by an author.” Many authors write under pseudonyms to protect their privacy. Others feel that’s what they should do ...

Some of our most beloved writers have used male pen names with a variety of motives, from combatting sexism in the industry as a whole, to breaking into male-dominated genres, and even as a means ...

She first adopted the name for her book The Cuckoo's Calling, in a bid to see how popular her new writing would be without the 'Harry' cloak. But what of other authors who have used pen names?

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Novels written by women using male pen names have been reissued using the authors' actual names. The collection includes George Eliot's Middlemarch, which has been reissued under the author's real ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.