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* Izumi Todo (best known for her work on ''Anime/PrettyCure'') is the pseudonym for Creator/ToeiAnimation.
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* Izumi Todo (best known for her work on ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' and ''Anime/PrettyCure'') is the pseudonym for the producers at Creator/ToeiAnimation.
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* "Anonymous" at 4chan. Related is Anonymous, the well-known "hacking" group. The one with the question mark and suit logo.
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* "Anonymous" at 4chan. Related is Anonymous, The website allows people to make posts without creating an account or even picking a username, in which case the well-known "hacking" group. The post is attributed to "Anonymous". Occasionally, people jokingly suggest this is actually an AvertedTrope and claim that all the posts from "Anonymous" were made by one with the question mark person actively choosing to go by "Anonymous" and suit logo.[[TalkingToThemself replying and responding to their own posts over and over.]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(hacker_group) Anonymous]] is said to have started when a group of people decided to actually do this for real.
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* Pretty much any humor magazine that involved Paul Laikin at any point would have him contributing both under his real name and as various permutations such as "[[SignificantAnagram Pula Kinlai]]" (or even the name of his deceased wife!) so as to mask his copious credits and/or garner kickbacks.
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%% * Pretty much any humor magazine that involved Paul Laikin at any point would have him contributing both under his real name and as various permutations such as "[[SignificantAnagram Pula Kinlai]]" (or even the name of his deceased wife!) so as to mask his copious credits and/or garner kickbacks.
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* In the fifties and sixties, "Uncle Jim" was the name by which whichever ''Bucks Free Press'' journalist who couldn't avoid get out of doing the children's page was credited. Most newspapers with a children's page had something similar, but the ''Bucks Free Press'' is worthy of note because one Uncle Jim turned out to be Creator/TerryPratchett, who replaced the twee stories about woodland animals with, well, early Terry Pratchett.
* The ''My Week'' column in the ''Sunday Post'' has been running since the 1930s, and has been credited to Francis Gay all that time. The original Francis Gay, Herbert Leslie Gee, died in 1977. Until the 1990s, nearly ''all'' the paper's columns ran under fake bylines, which allegedly led to one sportswriter being so annoyed he didn't get credit for the Bill [=McFarlane=] column that he threatened to change his name to Bill [=McFarlane=].
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* In the fifties and sixties, "Uncle Jim" was the name by which whichever ''Bucks Free Press'' journalist who couldn't avoid get out of doing the children's page was credited. Most newspapers with a children's page had something similar, but the ''Bucks Free Press'' is worthy of note because one Uncle Jim turned out to be Creator/TerryPratchett, who replaced the twee stories about woodland animals with, well, early Terry Pratchett.
* The ''My Week'' column in the ''Sunday Post'' has been running since the 1930s, and has been credited to Francis Gay all that time. The original Francis Gay, Herbert Leslie Gee, died in 1977. Until the 1990s, nearly ''all'' the paper's columns ran under fake bylines, which allegedly led to one sportswriter being so annoyed he didn't get credit for the Bill [=McFarlane=] column that he threatened to change his name to Bill [=McFarlane=].
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[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_name#Collective_names This article]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki will tell you some of them.
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* Prolific western author Noel Gerson wrote both the ''Literature/WagonsWest'' and ''Literature/WhiteIndian'' series under the pen names of Dana Fuller Ross and Donald Clayton Porter respectively. After he died new author continued his series but kept the pen names he originated/
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* Prolific western author Noel Gerson wrote both the ''Literature/WagonsWest'' and ''Literature/WhiteIndian'' series under the pen names of Dana Fuller Ross and Donald Clayton Porter respectively. After he died died, new author authors continued his series but kept the pen names he originated/originated.
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* Prolific western author Noel Gerson wrote both the ''Literature/WagonsWest'' and ''Literature/WhiteIndian'' series under the pen names of Dana Fuller Ross and Donald Clayton Porter respectively. After he died new author continued his series but kept the pen names he originated/
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* Kenneth Robeson of the Literature/DocSavage novels (usually Lester Dent).
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* Jack Mckinney: Author of the ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' novels. Actually consists of James Luceno and the late Brian Daley. After Daley's death, Luceno would write three additional ''Robotech'' novels using the pseudonym.
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* Jack Mckinney: [=McKinney=]: Author of the ''{{Anime/Robotech}}'' novels. Actually consists novels, which actually consisted of James Luceno and the late Brian Daley.Creator/BrianDaley. After Daley's death, Luceno would write three additional ''Robotech'' novels using the pseudonym.
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheBicentennialManAndOtherStories'': In the introduction, Dr Asimov [[DiscussedTrope shares the anecdote]] that in the review for ''Literature/AsimovOnChemistry'', he was called a "label and linchpin of a New York corporate authorship", meaning that the reviewer thought that other people had written the book and Asimov was a publishing house churning out books. However, Dr Asimov quite proudly considers himself a one-man operation in his career.
** There was a writer's convention where the emcee asked the authors in the audience to introduce themselves. Asimov spoke first and mentioned his current book; but the next writer ''also'' claimed to be Asimov, author of a ''different'' Asimov book. So did every other writer in the row. (Asimov himself was apparently not in on the joke.)
** There was a writer's convention where the emcee asked the authors in the audience to introduce themselves. Asimov spoke first and mentioned his current book; but the next writer ''also'' claimed to be Asimov, author of a ''different'' Asimov book. So did every other writer in the row. (Asimov himself was apparently not in on the joke.)
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* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheBicentennialManAndOtherStories'': In the introduction, Dr Asimov [[DiscussedTrope shares the anecdote]] that in the review for ''Literature/AsimovOnChemistry'', he was called a "label and linchpin of a New York corporate authorship", meaning that the reviewer thought that other people had written the book and Asimov was a publishing house churning out books. However, Dr Asimov quite proudly considers himself a one-man operation in his career.
**career. There was a writer's convention where the emcee asked the authors in the audience to introduce themselves. Asimov spoke first and mentioned his current book; but the next writer ''also'' claimed to be Asimov, author of a ''different'' Asimov book. So did every other writer in the row. (Asimov himself was apparently not in on the joke.)
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* Maxwell Grant of the Shadow novels (usually Walter B. Gibson, but also Theodore Tinsley, Bruce Eliott and on one occasion [[Franchise/DocSavage Lester Dent]]).
* Kenneth Robeson of the Franchise/DocSavage novels (usually Lester Dent).
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* Maxwell Grant of the Shadow novels (usually Walter B. Gibson, but also Theodore Tinsley, Bruce Eliott and on one occasion [[Franchise/DocSavage [[Literature/DocSavage Lester Dent]]).
* Kenneth Robeson of theFranchise/DocSavage Literature/DocSavage novels (usually Lester Dent).
* Kenneth Robeson of the
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* The British children's series ''Animal Ark'' was credited to Lucy Daniels, a pseudonym for a team of ghostwriters working under the creative direction of Ben M. Baglio.
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* Gold Eagle Publishing released two spinoffs of ''Literature/TheExecutioner'' in the 1980s; ''Able Team'', credited to Dick Stivers, and ''Phoenix Force's, credited to Gar Wilson. Both were house names; the actual author would be credited in the book with the line "Special thanks and acknowledgement to (actual author) for his contribution to this work".
** Somewhat applies to the original series as well; while there was a real Don Pendleton who wrote all but one of the original 38 ''Executioner'' novels, he sold the rights to Gold Eagle in 1980. All further installments were ghostwritten, despite having Don's name prominently on the cover. The actual author would be credited with the same "special thanks" line.
** Somewhat applies to the original series as well; while there was a real Don Pendleton who wrote all but one of the original 38 ''Executioner'' novels, he sold the rights to Gold Eagle in 1980. All further installments were ghostwritten, despite having Don's name prominently on the cover. The actual author would be credited with the same "special thanks" line.
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* K. A. Applegate of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, retroactively. There is a real K. A. Applegate, but she left the series about halfway through to work on other projects[[note]]though she returned for the finale[[/note]] while a string of ghostwriters kept it alive.
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* K. A. Applegate Creator/KAApplegate of Literature/{{Animorphs}}, retroactively. There is a real K. A. Applegate, who now goes by her first and last name of Katherine Applegate, but she left the series about halfway through to work on other projects[[note]]though she returned for the finale[[/note]] while a string of ghostwriters kept it alive.
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* Izumi Todo (best known for her work on ''Franchise/PrettyCure'') is the pseudonym for Creator/ToeiAnimation.
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* The tie-in novels to a number of Creator/TomClancy series video games were written by various authors under the collective name "David Michaels". The first author, Raymond Benson, wrote ''[[Literature/SplinterCell Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell]]'' and ''Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Operation Barracuda.''
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** There was a writer's convention where the emcee asked the authors in the audience to introduce themselves. Asimov spoke first and mentioned his current book; but the next writer ''also'' claimed to be Asimov, author of a ''different'' Asimov book. So did every other writer in the row. (Asimov himself was apparently not in on the joke.)
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* Carolyn Keene of the ''Literature/NancyDrew'' novels and Franklin W. Dixon of ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' novels. Notable due to the fact that both series has lasted long enough that you have to apply a serious dosage of ComicBookTime to even pretend to believe in the house pseudonyms. The writing careers of Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon span more than eight decades. If they were real people, they'd have to be well over a hundred years old by now.
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* Carolyn Keene of the ''Literature/NancyDrew'' novels and ''The Dana Girls'' novels, and Franklin W. Dixon of ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' novels.novels, fronts for the Creator/StratemeyerSyndicate. Notable due to the fact that both series has lasted long enough that you have to apply a serious dosage of ComicBookTime to even pretend to believe in the house pseudonyms. The writing careers of Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon span more than eight decades. If they were real people, they'd have to be well over a hundred years old by now.
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* Victor Appleton of the Literature/TomSwift books, and Victor Appleton II of the Tom Swift, Jr. books.
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* Victor Appleton of the Literature/TomSwift books, and Victor Appleton II of the Tom Swift, Jr. books.books (also for the Stratemeyer Syndicate).
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House Pseudonyms have been used to disguise that a long series has become a FranchiseZombie by allowing other authors to use the creator's name. They have been used to make a collaborative work look like it came from a single author, using a name that belongs to neither of the actual writers.
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House Pseudonyms have been used to disguise that a long series has become a FranchiseZombie by allowing other authors {{ghostwriter}}s to use the creator's name. They have been used to make a collaborative work look like it came from a single author, using a name that belongs to neither of the actual writers.
