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1->''"For several years I lived on the proceeds of the three novels I wrote as Edgar Box. ''The New York Times'' lavished praise on Box; then, years later, when I published all three in a single volume, confessing to their authorship, the ''Times'' retracted its three good reviews to give me a bad one."''
2-->-- '''Creator/GoreVidal''', ''Palimpsest''
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4A Pen Name (also known as a pseudonym or "nom de plume" if you want to sound fancy) is a made-up name a writer or artist (in the case of performers, this is called a [[StageNames Stage Name]]) produces works under for whatever reason. Often due to RuleOfCool, but other reasons also abound. In the case of famous actors / people, it's sometimes a way to find out whether or not they'd be successful even without their star power attached to it. Many writers have used a fictional name in order to avoid the typecasting associated with their name and particular genres, allowing them to write outside the expected genre that they've become well known for. Some manga creators use a pen name to avoid legal difficulties due to rules of their regular employment (school teachers and civil servants in Japan are often forbidden from pursuing other sources of income and it could be scandalous if a high school teacher was also a mangaka). A pseudonym may be used to protect the writer for exposé books about espionage or crime. Many female writers have used male pen names when writing in a male-dominated genre, and male writers have used female-sounding pen names when writing in a female-dominated genre, due to public expectations or the avoidance of potential scandal.
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6Sometimes, 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 those the author creates in the work proper, sometimes with their own fictional biographies, personalities and personal writing styles that differ from the creator's.
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8Supertrope of MoustacheDePlume and SameFaceDifferentName, so please don't repeat those examples here. See also HousePseudonym. Compare AnonymousAuthor, when the writer doesn't give any name.
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13[[folder:Real Life Examples (One pen name)]]
14* Akiman (Akira Yasuda)
15* Akira Yoshida (C.B. Cebulski, used to circumvent the rules banning Creator/MarvelComics editorial staff from writing comics as well)
16* Apollo C. Vermouth (Music/PaulMcCartney)
17* Andrew Clements (Hanne Turk)
18* Angela M. Horns (anagram of Creator/GrahamNelson)
19* Angus Oblong (David Adam Walker)
20* [[Webcomic/TheWotch Anne Onymous]] (not yet revealed)
21* Arthur Francis (Ira Gershwin)
22* Avi (Edward Irving Wortis)
23* B. Traven (not yet revealed, assumed to have been Ret Marut or Otto Feige--then to make things even crazier, Ret Marut was itself a pseudonym, and Marut and Feige might have been the same person). Virtually every detail of Traven's life has been disputed and hotly debated.
24* Bab ([[Creator/GilbertAndSullivan William Schwenck Gilbert]], when writing and illustrating humorous poetry later published as "The Bab Ballads")
25* Music/BillBailey (Mark Bailey; he named himself after the wartime song "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey")
26* Boz (Creator/CharlesDickens, in his first works)
27* [[Webcomic/TemplarArizona C. Spike Trotman]] (not yet revealed)
28* [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Carlo Collodi]] (Carlo Lorenzini)
29* Carter Dickson (Creator/JohnDicksonCarr--also used his own name).
30* Creator/CassandraClare (Judith Lewis)
31* Cecil Adams may or may not be the pen name of Ed Zotti. (As Ed has remarked, he finds it amusing that so many people question Cecil Adams' name but never his own.)
32* Civasco (Jose Victor Guerrero Barragan)
33* Claymore J. Flapdoodle (Creator/PhilFoglio on cards with his art in the TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering joke set ''Unglued'')
34* Cordwainer Smith (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)
35* Cordwainer Bird (Creator/HarlanEllison; a ShoutOut to the above, reserved for "AlanSmithee" situations where he feels that ExecutiveMeddling messed his contribution beyond repair)
36* Count Dante (John Keehan)
37* Crocket Johnson (David Johnson Leisk)
38* Creator/DarrenShan (Darren O'Shaunnessy)
39* Ding Ling (Jiang Bingzhi)
40* [[Creator/QuanticDream David Cage]] (David De Gruttola)
41* David Wong (Creator/JasonPargin)
42* Dr. COMET (Hitoshi Natsume)
43* e. o. plauen (Erich Ohser when he produced ''Vater und Sohn'')
44* Ebony Chimera (not yet revealed, outside she is Shawntae Howard's wife and being African-Latina, hence the "Ebony" moniker)
45* Ebony Leopard (Shawntae Howard)
46* Edogawa Rampo was born Hirai Tarō. He chose his pen name because it sounded like Edgar Allan Poe (RuleOfCool).
47* Creator/EmilyRodda (Jennifer Rowe)
48* Creator/EzraJackKeats (Jacob Ezra Katz - he even legally changed his name over to his pen name in 1947.)
49* [[Creator/FlannOBrien Flann O'Brien]] (Brian O'Nolan) - who also published under the name "Myles na gCopaleen" and numerous once-off pseudonyms.
50* [[Literature/TheSavannahReidMysteries G.A. McKevett]] (Sonja Massie)
51* George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
52* Fred (Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès)
53* Creator/GeorgeOrwell (Eric Blair)
54* George Sand (Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil)
55* Gerald Wiley (Ronnie Barker)
56* Creator/{{Herge}} (Georges Remi)
57* Creator/IsaacAsimov
58** Many readers assumed his name was an exotic pseudonym for someone with a boring name like Jack Smith, creating an {{Inverted|Trope}} example.
59** ''Literature/TheEarlyAsimov'': After the story "{{Literature/Trends}}", Dr Asimov [[DiscussedTrope describes]] the disagreement between himself and Creator/JohnWCampbell over whether he should use an anglo-saxon pseudonym to make it easier for audiences to read/spell his name. Dr Asimov was firmly against the idea, and Campbell didn't raise the subject when he agreed to publish "Trends".
60** ''Literature/TheSensuousDirtyOldMan'' was published under the pseudonym Creator/DrA because he was parodying ''Literature/TheSensuousWoman'' (by "J") and ''Literature/TheSensuousMan'' (by "M").
61** Hilariously, he did use the very ordinary "Creator/PaulFrench" as a pseudonym when he wrote the [[Literature/TheCompleteAdventuresOfLuckyStarr Lucky Starr]] series, as he wanted to have them turned into a TV series but didn't trust Hollywood [[ExecutiveMeddling not to mess things up]].
62* Creator/JackCampbell (John Hermy)
63* Creator/JackKirby (Jacob Kurtzberg)
64* Jack Yeovil (Creator/KimNewman)
65* Creator/JamesHerriot (James Alfred Wight)
66* Jean Paul (Jean Paul Friedrich Richter)
67* J. E. Mand ("S. O. Meone") (Duke Charles of Mecklenburg-Strelitz as playwright)
68* Jill Churchill (Janice Young Brooks)
69* Creator/JinYong (Louis Cha)
70* Joachim Ringelnatz (Hans Böttcher)
71* Creator/JoeHill (Joseph Hillstrom King)
72* John Twelve Hawks (as of yet unknown)
73* Jonathan Ryder (Creator/RobertLudlum)
74* Creator/JosephConrad (Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski)
75* Joseph Terry (Joey D'Auria)
76* Kenny Everett (Maurice Cole)
77* Kim Harrison (Dawn Cook)
78* Laura Childs (Gerry Schmitt)
79* [[Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket]] (Creator/DanielHandler)
80* Creator/LewisCarroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
81* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] (Creator/LewisLovhaug. Lewis used it as a pen name for his childhood novels. It soon was used as a log in name for his written reviews and finally became, well, Linkara.)
82* Creator/{{Loriot}} (Vicco von Bülow)
83* Malba Tahan (Júlio César de Mello e Souza)
84* Marc Bolan (Marc Feld)
85* Creator/MarkTwain (Samuel Clemens)
86* Martin Nodell - The co-creator of Alan Scott (the first Franchise/GreenLantern), went by "Mart Dellon" because according to him, "Comics were a forbidden literature, culturally unacceptable. It wasn't something you were proud of".
87* Mercedes Wainwright - Creator/NigellaLawson. Part of her production as a journalist (mostly for magazines) was written under a pseudonym. The pseudonym came from a desire to, just like her real name, combine an extremely pretentious first name with an extremely pedestrian last name.
88* Miyahon (Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, used in many of his earlier games until ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', when he ditched it for good)
89* Creator/{{Moliere}} (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (also a [[StageNames stage name]])
90* Monkey Punch (Kazuhiko Kato)
91* Creator/{{Morris}} (Maurice De Bevere)
92* N.W. Clerk (Creator/CSLewis)
93* Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran)
94* Nin-Nin (Akira Nishitani)
95* Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
96* Ogure Ito uses the pen name 'Creator/OhGreat' because his real name Ogure Ito is roughly how the Japanese pronounce "oh great".
97* Creator/OHenry (William Sydney Porter)
98* Olivia (Dorothy Bussy)
99* [[ComicStrip/{{Nancy}} Olivia Jaimes]] (not yet revealed)
100* Orlando M. Pilchard (Nick Pelling, Platform/BBCMicro programmer)
101* Creator/OsamuTezuka uses the nickname ''Osamushi'', which is the Japanese name of a beetle; he writes it like ''Osamu'' + ''mushi'' ('insect'). During his lifetime, he would sometimes use this nickname for signing autographs with an occasional illustration of his characters. ([[https://i.imgur.com/PFA5Yz7.jpg such as this autograph featuring a drawing]] of Manga/{{Unico}} over his name [[https://imgur.com/a/7lnXNXd and similar sketches]])
102* [[Creator/ShirowMasamune Masamune Shirow]], possibly born Ota Masanori; he has never published under his real name and it's still not confirmed. He began creating manga while a high school teacher; so he's very cautious with his privacy. He never appears in public, and forbids photographs.
103* Creator/{{Peyo}} (Pierre Culliford)
104* Philalethes (King John of Saxony)
105* Finish Hiroshi (Hiroshi Matsumoto)
106* P. Howard (Jenő Rejtő)
107* Professor Hoffmann (Angelo John Lewis)
108* Creator/GerardOury (Max-Gérard Houry Tannenbaum)
109* [[Literature/SecretSeries Pseudonymous Bosch]] (Raphael Simon)
110* Creator/{{Quino}} (Joaquín Salvador Lavado)
111* Richard Bachman (Creator/StephenKing). He started using the name because, at the time, the convention among publishers was that authors were limited to one book per year, and the famously prolific King wanted to publish more novels without diluting his own personal brand. He also stated that he did it as a challenge, to see if his books would still be successful if it wasn't his name on the cover with the associated marketing budgets that his books got. On that front, he said he had mixed results, and that he was outed as Bachman too early to know. Later reprints of the "Bachman books" say that the author died of "cancer of the pseudonym, a rare form of schizonomia."
112* Music/RingoStarr (Richard Starkey)
113* Creator/{{Rius}} (Eduardo del Río)
114* Creator/{{Shinkiro}} (Toshiaki Mori)
115* Creator/ShotaroIshinomori (Shotaro Onodera; an earlier pen name, Shotaro Ishimori, was due to an editor's error in 1959 but changed in 1986)
116* Saki (Creator/HectorHughMunro)
117* Creator/{{Sarban}} (Creator/JohnWilliamWall)
118* Sax Rohmer, creator of Literature/FuManchu (Arthur Henry Ward)
119* Shuzilow.HA (Shūjirō Hamakawa)
120* Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin)
121* Creator/StanLee (Stanley Martin Lieber; he eventually legally adopted his pen name)
122* "Erin Sterling" is Creator/RachelHawkins' pen name for adult romances.
123* Creator/{{Stendhal}} (Henri Beyle)
124* SUEZEN (Fumio Iida)
125* S. W. Erndase -- a person wrote ''The Expert at the Card Table'' under this name in the early 1900s. The author's true identity remains a [[RiddleForTheAges mystery]] to this day.
126* Creator/TakashiYanase (T.Yanase)
127* [[Creator/ThatAmericanSlacker ThatAmericanSlacker]] (Miles Krohn)
128* Creator/{{ThatPersonYouMightKnow}} (not yet revealed)
129* Thomas Luke (Creator/GrahamMasterton)
130* T. Kingfisher (Creator/UrsulaVernon)
131* Creator/TomiUngerer (Jean-Thomas Ungerer)
132* Trevanian (Rodney William Whitaker)
133* Creator/{{Vercors}} (Creator/JeanMarcelBruller)
134* Vic Reeves (Jim Moir)
135* Creator/{{Voltaire}} (Francois Marie Arouet)
136* W. E. B. Griffin (William Edmund Butterworth III)
137* Creator/{{Wildbow}} (John C. [=McRae=])
138* Possibly Creator/WilliamShakespeare, according to several (unproven) theories.
139* Dr. Winston O'Boogie (Music/JohnLennon)
140* Creator/WolfmanJack (Bob Smith)
141* [=YmoH.S=] (Creator/HitoshiSakimoto)
142* [=YU2=] ([[Creator/SonicTeam Yuji Naka]])
143* Creator/YukioMishima (Hiraoka Kimitake)
144* For the 1994 Creator/ChuckJones short "Chariots of Fur", several of the animators used pen names because they were still under contract to Disney.
145** Bill Snelgrove (Will Finn)
146** Claude Raynes (Eric Goldberg)
147** Irene Arkin (Nik Ranieri)
148** Margaret Trudeaux (Joe Haidar)
149* Creator/GeorgeGomez (Jorge Alfredo Gomez Y Marth)
150* Student (of t-distribution fame) was the pen name of William Sealy Gosset.
151* Creator/CyrilMKornbluth:
152** "[[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.
153** "Literature/ForgottenTongue" and "{{Literature/Interference}}" were both published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/WalterCDavies.
154** "[[Literature/MasqueradeKornbluth Masquerade]]" and "Literature/TheWordsOfGuru" were both published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/KennethFalconer.
155** "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.
156** "Literature/NoPlaceToGo" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/EdwardJBellin.
157* Creator/HenryKuttner: "Literature/TheTouchingPoint" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/EdwardJBellin.
158* 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.
159* Creator/FrederikPohl: "Worlds in Exile" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/EltonVAndrews
160* Creator/JohnWCampbell used the pseudonym Arthur [=McCann=] several times during issues of ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'', such as short columns for the [[Recap/Analog1939 1939 issues]], such as "Literature/Isotope235" and "Literature/NumbersWithoutMeaning".
161* Creator/LRonHubbard used the pseudonym Frederick Engelhardt for several stories for ''Magazine/AstoundingStories'', such as when he published ''[[Literature/GeneralSwampCIC General Swamp, C.I.C.]]'' in the [[Recap/Analog1939 August and September 1939 issues]], and "Literature/ThisShipKills!" in the November 1939 issue.
162* Creator/MiltonARothman used the pseudonym Lee Gregor when publishing "Literature/HeavyPlanet" in the [[Recap/Analog1939 August 1939 issue]] and when publishing "Literature/ShawnsSword" in the October 1939 issue.
163* Creator/VESchwab has written as both "Victoria Schwab" and "V. E. Schwab". Up til 2022, generally the former was for young adult and middle grade and the latter for adult. This was partly to make it harder for her younger readers to stumble across her adult fiction, and partly [[MoustacheDePlume to conceal her gender]] from those less willing to try a book by a woman. In 2022, she announced on her website that all her books going forward would be published under the "V. E." name so as to separate her personal identity from her persona as an author.
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166[[folder:Real Life Examples (One person, multiple pen names)]]
167* Alberto Carreiro, Ricardo Reis, Álvaro de Campos and several dozens of others (Creator/FernandoPessoa), with at least 70 different names being used throughout his life. Notably, Pessoa gave the aforementioned ones their own individual biographies, birth dates and writing styles.
168* Allan Devon, Christopher Golato, Mark Rowane (Creator/SidneySheldon)
169* Anson [=MacDonald=], Caleb Saunders, John Riverside, Leslie Keith, Lyle Monroe (Creator/RobertAHeinlein)
170* Ampe R. Sand / Dave Ahl Jr. / Zarf (Andrew Plotkin)
171* Anne Desclos, writer of ''Histoire d'O'' (Story of O), used the pseudonym Pauline Réage. Under another pen name for most of her novels, she was Dominique Aury (known for a demure, intellectual, and almost prudish persona).
172* Creator/AnneRice, Anne Rampling, A.N. Roquelaure (Howard Allen O'Brien, Rice by marriage) [[note]]No transgendering involved - she was just ''named after her father'' (her mother thought it was a nice idea). Nobody has called her "Howard" since her first day at school, when she decided to call herself "Anne".[[/note]]
173* Ashida Kim, Christopher Hunter, and possibly Dr. [=HaHa=] Lung (Radford W. Davis)
174* Brian O'Nolan used the pen names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen for his novels and journalistic writing because Irish civil servants were not allowed at that time to publish works under their own names.
175* Buronson (the name chosen both due to RuleOfCool and as a tribute to the American actor Charles Bronson, whose mustache he imitated), also known as Fumimura Shō, was born as Yoshiyuki Okamura.
176* Dee Dee Green, Sue Swan, Marie Cabbit, Alex Hall (Creator/DebiDerryberry)
177* Creator/PDjeliClark (Dexter Gabriel) uses a pen name to differentiate his fiction writing from his academic writing. His short stories have been published under the names "P. Djèlí Clark", "Djèlí A. Clark", "Phenderson Djèlí Clark", and "A. Phenderson Clark". "Phenderson" is his grandfather's name, and "Clark" his mother's maiden name. "Djèlí" is a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griot griots]], West African storytellers.
178* Creator/DrSeuss, Theo. [=LeSieg=] (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
179* David Gordon, Lou Tabakow, Ivar Jorgenson, Darrel T. Langart, Jonathan Blake [=MacKenzie=], S. M. Tenneshaw, and Gordon Aghill, Randall Garrett ([[Creator/RandallGarrett Randall Phillip Garrett]])
180* David Osborne, Calvin M. Nox (Creator/RobertSilverberg)
181* Creator/EmilyRodda, Mary-Anne Dickinson (Jennifer Rowe) -- Later reprints of her books that had been published under the Dickinson name used the Rodda name instead.
182* Creator/EvanHunter, Ed [=McBain=], Richard Marsten (Salvatore Lombino) [[note]]He had his name legally changed to "Evan Hunter" in 1952.[[/note]]
183* Hugh Marlowe, Creator/JackHiggins, James Graham, Martin Fallon (Harry Patterson)
184* Ignaz Wrobel, [[ShoutOut Kaspar Hauser]], Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger (Kurt Tucholsky)
185** The German writer used four pseudonyms while working on ''Die Weltbühne'' so his name would not appear so often on the index, assigning different styles to his four alter egos. Theobald Tiger wrote only in verse, Peter Panter general satires, Ignaz Wrobel acerbic, hard-hitting stuff, and Kaspar Hauser on the lines of "this world is crazy".
186* James Rollins, James Clemens (James Paul Czajkowski)
187* James Tiptree, Jr., Raccoona Sheldon (Alice Bradley Sheldon)
188* Creator/JKRowling, Robert Galbraith (Joanne Rowling)
189* Johannes de Silentio, Johannes Climacus, Anti-Climacus, Victor Eremita, Constantin Constantius, Vigilius Haufniensis, Nicolaus Notabene, Hilarius Bookbinder, etc. (some of Creator/SorenKierkegaard's many pseudonyms)
190* JT [=LeRoy=], Emily Frasier, Speedie (Laura Albert)
191* Kawashita Mizuki used to draw shoujo (teenage girls) manga under the pen name Momokuri Mikan but changed to Kawashita Mizuki later on when she started writing romance manga.
192* Creator/JohnWyndham, John Beynon and Lucas Parkes (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)
193* Creator/{{Moebius}}, Gir (Jean Giraud)
194* Creator/RobertJordan, Reagan O'Neil, Jackson O'Reilly (James Oliver Rigney Jr.)
195* Creator/RobinHobb, Creator/MeganLindholm (Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden)
196* Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt (Donald Westlake)
197* Pat Murphy wrote ''There and Back Again'' under the pseudonym of Max Merriwell. She wrote ''Wild Angel'' under the name Mary Maxwell, which was supposed to be Max Merriwell writing under a pen name. In ''Adventures in Space and Time With Max Merriwell'' (written under her real name) Max Merriwell meets his pen names on a cruise.
198* In addition to his most famous pen name of W. E. B. Griffin, William Edmund Butterworth III published works as (long breath) Alex Baldwin, Webb Beech, Walter E. Blake, James [=McM.=] Douglas, Jack Dugan, John Kevin Dugan, Eden Hughes, Allison Mitchell, Edmund O. Scholefield, Blakely St. James, and Patrick E. Williams. He also published work with multiple variations of his real name—W. E. Butterworth and William E. Butterworth, the latter both with and without "III".
199* Trevanian also published works as Nicholas Seare, Beñat Le Cagot, and Edoard Moran, as well as his real name of Rod Whitaker (short for Rodney William Whitaker).
200* Creator/RobertWLowndes
201** "Ambition", "The Burrowers Beneath", "Forbidden Books", and "Literature/TheLongWall" were published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/WilfredOwenMorley
202** "The Wind from the River" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/RichardMorrison.
203** "Literature/TheDollMaster" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/PaulDennisLavond.
204* Creator/DonaldAWollheim:
205** "Literature/BlindFlight", "{{Literature/Cosmophobia}}", and "Literature/PurpleDandelions" were all published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/MillardVerneGordon.
206** "Literature/TheUnfinishedCity" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/MartinPearson.
207** "Literature/StrangeReturn" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/LawrenceWoods.
208** "[[Literature/ExclaimExclaimExclaim !!!]]" was published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name X.
209* Brazilian cartoonist Henfil, short for ''Hen''rique Lima ''Fil''ho.
210* All the comedians from Brazilian group Casseta & Planeta, although Claudio Manoel reverted from "Claude Mañel" to his birth name. Two homaged the Usefulnotes/RioDeJaneiro neighborhoods they hail from (Hélio de la [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penha,_Rio_de_Janeiro Peña]] and Marcelo [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madureira,_Rio_de_Janeiro Madureira]]). One had a childhood nickname (Bussunda). One changed an ethnic name to the equivalent of MrSmith (Beto Silva). And both Reinaldo and Hubert [[OnlyOneName don't use their surnames]].
211* Creator/MachadoDeAssis used the pen names Dr. Semana, Gil, Sileno, J., Job, J. J., Victor de Paula, [[Creator/{{Plato}} Platão]], Y., Lara, Manassés, Eleazar, Lélio, João das Regras, Malvólio, Victor de Paulo, Boas Noites, Max and Camilo da Anunciação to write some of his short stories and novellas.
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215* Creator/ElleryQueen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee)
216** Dannay and Lee were ''themselves'' pen names: respectively, their ''real'' names were Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky.
217** The duo also published four mysteries as Barnaby Ross.
218** "Mallory T. Knight" (Bernhardt J. Hurwood) is very probably a parodic reference to that pen name - the author wrote mostly parodies anyway.
219* [[Literature/JohnPutnamThatcher Emma Lathen]] (Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Hennisart)
220* Creator/ErinHunter is the pen name of seven authors and editors of ''Literature/WarriorCats'', ''Literature/SeekerBears'' and ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'' (Victoria Holmes, Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, Tui Sutherland, Gillian Philip, Inbali Iserles, and Erica Sussman).
221* There is a theory that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid Euclid]] was actually one of these.
222* Jahnna N. Malcolm, writers of the ''Literature/BadNewsBallet'' series among others (CreatorCouple Jahnna Beecham and Malcolm Hillgartner; doubles as a {{Pun}} as the name is literally "Jahnna and Malcolm".)
223* Grant Naylor (Rob Grant and Doug Naylor)
224* Creator/FujikoFujio (Hiroshi Fujimoto, who has since passed away, and Motoo Abiko)
225* Franklin W. Dixon, writer of Literature/TheHardyBoys
226* Carolyn Keene, writer of Literature/NancyDrew
227* [[Franchise/WonderWoman Charles Moulton]] (Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston and Joye Murchison)
228* [[Literature/EdgarAndEllen Charles Ogden]] (various authors)
229* Creator/IlonaAndrews (Ilona and Andrew Gordon)
230* Creator/KAApplegate is credited as the creator of ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' and ''Literature/{{Remnants}}''; in recent years, however, it's been revealed they were more of a co-production between her [[CreatorCouple and her husband]], Creator/MichaelGrant.
231* Kozma Prutkov (A.K.Tolstoy and Zhemchuzhnikov Brothers)
232* Publius, author of the Federalist Papers, was three Founding Fathers: UsefulNotes/AlexanderHamilton, UsefulNotes/JamesMadison, and John Jay.
233* Creator/MichaelSlade, pen name of Jay Clarke, along with his various collaborators, whose thrillers pit the Mounties against serial killers. Clarke is a Canadian lawyer whose specialty is criminal insanity.
234* LA Graf, a pen name used by Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone for their collaborative works in the ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', as well as one ''Series/AlienNation'' novel. (The name stands for "Let's All Get Rich And Famous.")
235* Robert Randall (Creator/RobertSilverberg and Creator/RandallGarrett)
236* Many pulp and paperback publishers used "house pseudonyms" so that it would appear that one writer wrote e. g. all stories featuring a certain hero even if they were actually written by a succession of work-for-hire writers. See ExtrudedBookProduct.
237** Creator/{{TSR}} explained that their reason for doing this with the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' ''Avatar Trilogy'' (Scott Cecien and Troy Denning under the name Richard Awlinson) and ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3rd edition novels (nine authors, including names that could probably shift product to D&D fans on their own, writing as T.H. Lain) was that it ensured the books would all be shelved next to each other in bookstores.
238* Owen Hatteras (Creator/HLMencken and George Jean Nathan)
239* For ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', the name "Ponsonby Britt" was used as a pseudonym for Jay Ward and Bill Scott because the network wanted an "executive producer" credit and the two already received "producer" credits.
240* ''The Melody Man'', a comedy play which flopped badly on Broadway in 1924, was ascribed to one Herbert Richard Lorenz. Herbert Fields, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart took their last names off the play apparently because they considered that it would become their OldShame.
241* Nicolas Bourbaki was the pen name of a group of French mathematicians.
242* Manning Coles was the pen name of Adelaide Frances Oke Manning and Cyril Henry Coles.
243* ''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.
244* [[Series/TheExpanse James S. A. Corey]] is Ty Franck plus Daniel Abraham (who himself used "M.L.N. Hanover" for another work). The first and last name are taken from Abraham's and Franck's middle names, as [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] knows.
245* Jack [=McKinney=] was used by the team of Creator/JamesLuceno and the late Creator/BrianDaley, most significantly for the ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' {{Novelization}}s and TelevisionTieInNovels. They also co-wrote an original series, the ''Black Hole Travel Agency''. Luceno reused the pen name to write several ''Robotech'' interquel novels in the Nineties after Daley's death.
246* "Literature/BlackFlames" and "Literature/TheColossusOfMaia" were co-written by Creator/RobertWLowndes and Creator/DonaldAWollheim, and published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/LawrenceWoods.
247* "Literature/TheCastleOnOuterplanet" was co-written by Creator/CyrilMKornbluth, Creator/RobertWLowndes, and Creator/FrederikPohl, and published in ''Magazine/StirringScienceStories'' under the name Creator/SDGottesman.
248* The "Literature/WagonsWest" series had four different people using the name Dana Fuller Ross.
249* The "Literature/WhiteIndian" series had two people using the name Donald Clayton Porter.
250* Vítor Leal (Olavo Bilac, Aluísio Azevedo, Coelho Neto and Pardal Mallet).
251* After Creator/IanFleming passed away and the ''Literature/JamesBond'' literary series was handed down to new authors, the initial plan was that every continuation novel regardless of writer would be credited to a single pseudonym, Robert Markham. Ultimately only the first continuation novel, ''Literature/ColonelSun'' by Kingsley Amis, did this. On top of all future novels being credited to their true authors, reprintings of ''Colonel Sun'' also give Kingsley Amis the full authorship acknowledgment.
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255* Tim [=McGee=] in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' writes thrillers under the pen name "Thom E. Gemcity," which is of course an anagram of his real name.
256* Strong Bad from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' once claimed that he writes an advice column for a girls' magazine under the "pseudoname" Cara Carabowditbowdit.
257* Anime/{{Monster}}: Franz Bonaparta, Klaus Poppe, Emil Sebe, and Jakub Farobek. All one person.
258* ''Series/TheXFiles''--Fox Mulder wrote an ''Omni'' article under the name "M.F. Luder."
259* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' main character Richard Edgar Castle was born Richard Alexander Rogers.
260* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Haruna Saotome (no relation to that other [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Saotome]]) uses the moniker "Paru".
261* Kenji Harima from ''Manga/SchoolRumble'' draws manga under the pen name Harima Hario.
262* ''Literature/EndersGame'': Peter and Valentine Wiggin use the pen names "Locke" and "Demosthenes" (respectively) to write blogs for political discourse. Ender later takes one of his own, "The Speaker for the Dead," to write biographies of his brother, the Hive Queen, and later for one of the pequeninos.
263* ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'': Working on the Holonet, Tash Arranda takes the usernames Seeker and Searcher1. A different user puts out stories about the extinct Jedi Knights under the penname [=ForceFlow=]. Even when he meets Tash, he doesn't tell her his real name. [[spoiler: Because he's actually the BigBad.]]
264* In ''Film/TheFactsInTheCaseOfMisterHollow,'' the eponymous Johnny Hollow provides a {{Spooky Photograph|s}} to an OccultDetective investigating a MysteryCult. Careful examination of the investigator's other documents reveals that "Hollow" is an [[SueDonym alias]] adopted by Johnathon H. Ollow, a writer for the in-universe newspaper, ''The Greater Toronto Gazette.''
265* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Kaneki's favorite author writes under the name Sen Takatsuki. It isn't entirely clear what her actual name is, and she probably likes it that way. [[spoiler: Her real name is Eto Yoshimura, the AntagonisticOffspring of the BigGood Yoshimura, and is one of the BigBad (later revealed at the sequel as a sympathetic, if not a well-intentioned villain) of the series as the infamous [[HalfHumanHybrid One-Eyed]] [[OminousOwl Owl.]]]]
266* In Jean Robinson's ''The Strange But Wonderful Cosmic Awareness of Duffy Moon'' the narrator's father writes a cooking column under the name of Grace Gallagher.
267* Mirai from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' writes online under the alias of Futsure, which is her name in English (Future), pronounced in Japanese.
268* In ''Music/TouhouZUNsMusicCollection'' series, Renko decides to give Maribel the pen name "Dr. Latency" for the book they are writing about her visions and experiences.
269* In ''Manga/YuruYuri'', Kyoko publishes her Mirakurun doujinshi under the name Nishikyougoku Ramuko, a parody of the in-universe actual creator's name Saikyouyaki Ranko, and referencing her TrademarkFavoriteFood rum raisin.
270* Miu Amano of ''Manga/BlendS'' is a {{doujinshi}} author under the pen name of Hanozono Folder.
271* ''Manga/ComicGirls'''s cast are {{Sequential Artist}}s, and each of them have different pen names:
272** Kaoruko Moeta uses "[[InconsistentSpelling Chaos/Kaos]]".
273** Koyume Koizuka uses "Koisuru Koyume".
274** Ruki Irokawa uses "Big Boobs Himeko", a name imposed by her editor.
275** Tsubasa Katsuki uses "Wing V".
276* ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' also features manga artists with various pen names.
277** The main characters, Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi, are collectively known as Muto Ashirogi, a portmanteau of both their names, along with the "A" from Mashiro's LoveInterest Miho Azuki's surname.
278** Yuriko Aoki goes by the pen name Ko Aoki.
279** Aiko Iwase also uses a pen name, Akina.
280* ''Film/LethalWeapon4'': It comes out that Roger Murtagh's wife Trish publishes what Martin Riggs calls "cheesy sex novels" under the pen name Ebony Clark. Riggs had initially gotten suspicious because Murtagh [[SuspiciousSpending was incurring expenses that were beyond a cop's pay]] and was trying to find out where the extra money was coming from.
281* ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'' is about hentai publishing, so a lot of the artists uses pen names:
282** Norush's real name is Nogami Ryoushi.
283** Downplayed in Toda's case. Her legal given name is in kanji[[note]]戸田 聖子[[/note]], but published with her given name in katakana[[note]]戸田 セーコ[[/note]].
284* In ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', the titular character uses the pen name Yumeno Sakiko.
285* Creator/TheBBC Radio 4 spoof NordicNoir series ''Angstrom'' is supposedly based on a series of books by a man named Martin English, who published them under the name [[FakeNationality Bjorgen Swedenssonsson]].
286* ''VideoGame/BestOfThree'': Helen and Grant's old English teacher, Ms. Littenburg, now writes cheesy romance novels that she publishes under the name "Mystique Lacey". Both of them recognize that it's actually her writing.
287* From ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', we have children's picture book author/illustrator Elise Deauxnim, real name [[spoiler:Misty Fey]]. When Larry Butz becomes her apprentice, he adopts the pen name Laurice Deauxnim, and [[DoNotCallMePaul insists that everyone call him by it]] whenever he's dressed in his artist clothes ([[ButtMonkey no one does]]). ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' also has a writer whose PunnyName is Norma [=DePlume=] (nom de plume), [[AvertedTrope which is ironically her real name]].
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