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Open Thread: Reveal Your Favorite Literary Pseudonyms

Literary Pseudonyms

First Posted: 04/27/11 11:54 AM ET Updated: 06/27/11 06:12 AM ET

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guardian.co.uk:

We know a great deal about Anonymous but less about its sibling Pseudonymous. As a book authored under a disguised name makes the Orwell shortlist for the first time, we look at why authors hide their identity – and ask for your favourites

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EMGray
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01:47 PM on 04/29/2011
The name that would be my favorite pseudonym, if it weren't a real name: Evelyn Waugh.
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3fingerbrown
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09:31 AM on 04/28/2011
On "The Odd Couple," when Oscar Madison needed a pen name he came up with "Andre LePlume."
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naschkatze
A free man creates himself.
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08:43 PM on 04/27/2011
George Eliot for Mary Ann Evans. Such serious books, but would anyone have taken them seriously in that age if they were published under the writer's own name?
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Alice Radley
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
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12:26 PM on 04/27/2011
Kilgore Trout ;)

Not exactly what's meant here, but I like it.
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