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Can you match the novelist to their <em> nom de plume? </em>

Can you match the novelist to their nom de plume?

By Brittany Allen | August 11, 2025

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

How Four Literary Icons Chose the Pen Names That Made Them Famous

Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott Explore the Reasoning Behind Some Very Well Known Pseudonyms

By Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott | June 20, 2025

How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

How Samuel Adams Fought for Independence—Anonymously

Stacy Schiff on the Journalistic Pseudonyms of an American Revolutionary

By Stacy Schiff | November 3, 2022

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

Richard Zenith on the Many Literary Lives of the Genius of Lisbon

By Richard Zenith | July 22, 2021

War, Anonymity, and the Dangerous Line Between Truth and Fiction

War, Anonymity, and the Dangerous Line Between Truth and Fiction

Eva Nour on the Writer's View of the Syrian Regime

By Eva Nour | September 14, 2020

Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

David L. Ulin on the Baffling Impulse to Unmask a Beloved Writer

By David L. Ulin | October 3, 2016

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