Notable pseudonyms or pen names of famous authors
Pseudonym | Authors real name |
---|---|
Acton Bell | Anne Bronte |
Anne Knish | Arthur Davison Ficke |
Anne Rice | Howard Allen O'Brian |
Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne |
Barbara Cartland | Barbara McCorquodale |
Barbara Vine | Barbara Grasemann |
Boz | Charles Dickens |
Currer Bell | Charlotte Bronte |
Daniel Defoe | Daniel Foe |
Doctor Seuss | Theodore Seuss Geisel |
Ed McBain | Evan Hunter |
Elizabeth Peters | Barbara Mertz |
Ellis Bell | Emily Bronte |
George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans |
George Orwell | Eric Arthur Blair |
George Sand | Amandine Dupin |
Harold Robbins | Harold Rubin |
Jack Higgins | Harry Patterson |
James Herriot | James Alfred Wight |
John Beynon | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris |
John le Carre | David John Moore Cornwell |
John Wyndham | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris |
Joseph Conrad | Jozef Teodor Nalecz Konrad Korzeniowski |
Lewis Carroll | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson |
Mahatma Kane Jeeves | WC Fields |
Mark Twain | Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
Mary Westmacott | Agatha Christie |
Mickey Spillane | Frank Morrison |
Moliere | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin |
Paul Klenousky | Sir Henry Wood |
Richard Bachman | Stephen King |
Ruth Rendell | Barbara Grasemann |
Tennessee Williams | Thomas Lanier |
Tom Stoppard | Tomas Straussler |
Virgil | Publius Vergilus Maro |
Voltaire | Francois-Marie Arouet |
Woody Allen | Allen Stewart Konigsberg |