History Main / PenName

* ''The Economist'' generally do not name the author of their articles, Columnists are instead assigned a relevant pseudonym according to the author's area of expertise, eg. Bunyan for the Asian Correspondent, and Lexington for the US Correspondent. Some of the more established pseudonyms have been carried on by multiple authors.

** "[[Literature/ThirteenOClock Thirteen O'Clock]]", "Literature/TheCityInTheSofa", "Literature/TheGoldenRoad", "Literature/MrPackerGoesToHell", "Literature/TheReversibleRevolutions", "Literature/TheRocketOf1955", and "Literature/WhatSorghumSays" were all published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/CecilCorwin.
** "Literature/ForgottenTongue" and "{{Literature/Interference}}" were both published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/WalterCDavies.
** "[[Literature/MasqueradeKornbluth Masquerade]]" and "Literature/TheWordsOfGuru" were both published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/KennethFalconer.
** "Literature/DeadCenter", "Literature/DimensionOfDarkness", "Literature/FirePower", "Literature/KazamCollects", "Literature/ThePerfectInvasion", and "[[Literature/ReturnFromM15 Return from M-15]]" were all published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/SDGottesman.
** "Literature/NoPlaceToGo" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/EdwardJBellin.
* Creator/HenryKuttner: "Literature/TheTouchingPoint" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/EdwardJBellin.
* Creator/JohnBMichel: "Literature/TheGoblinsWillGetYou", "Literature/TheLastViking", "{{Literature/Power|1941}}", "Literature/RebirthOfTomorrow", "Literature/SpokesmanForTerra", and "Literature/WhenHalfWorldsMeet" were all published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/HughRaymond.
* Creator/FrederikPohl: "Worlds in Exile" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/EltonVAndrews

* Richard Bachman (Creator/StephenKing)

** Kaoruko Moeta uses "[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Chaos/Kaos]]".

* Orlando M. Pilchard (Nick Pelling, UsefulNotes/BBCMicro programmer)

* Jahnna N. Malcolm, writers of the ''Literature/BadNewsBallet'' (CreatorCouple Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner; doubles as a {{Pun}} as the name is literally "Jahnna and Malcolm".)

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' main character Richard Edgar Castle was born Richard Alexander Rogers.

* Creator/StanLee (Stanley Martin Lieber)

* Morris (Maurice De Bevere)

* Creator/JosephConrad (Józef Teodor Nalecz Konrad Korzeniowski)

* Creator/CMKornbluth:

* "Literature/TheCastleOnOuterplanet" was co-written by Creator/CMKornbluth, Creator/RobertWLowndes, and Creator/FrederikPohl, and published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/SDGottesman.

!!Examples:

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!!Sometimes one person uses [[IHaveManyNames multiple pen names]]:

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!!Sometimes two or more people use one pen name:

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!!Fictional examples:

* Piston Hiroshi (Hiroshi Matsumoto)

* Ebony Chimera (not yet revealed, outside she is Shawntae Howard's wife)

Sometimes, the pen name the author uses gets its own individuality and qualities through its writing; in these cases, it can also be called a heteronym -- the fictional identities authors can create in order to talk through them, experimenting with new styles and acting as different people instead of writing under a different name, but otherwise writing as themselves. Thus, heteronyms can be said to be characters not much different from the ones the author creates in the work proper, sometimes with their own fictional biographies, personalities and personal writing styles that differ from the creator's.