pen names Democritus Junior [ Burton, Robert ](1577–1640). The English scholar, writer, and Anglican clergyman Robert Burton is best remembered for his The Anatomy of Melancholy, written under the pen name Democritus Junior. The work is a masterpiece of style, a mine of curious information, and a valuable index to the philosophical Anne Rice. (Real Name: Howard Allen O'Brien) Yes, Anne Rice's real name is Howard. No, this wasn't a case of a guy trying to write vampire stories under a woman's name to give them that extra dose of sensuality -- Anne Rice's mom really named her Howard. Not sure why she ditched the O'Brien; that probably was related to having some credibility in the sensuality department.George Orwell. (Real Name: Eric Arthur Blair) In a crazy twist, "Eric Blair" sounds like the name of a character who could've been someone's Big Brother in a teen movie made in 1984.Lewis Carroll. (Real Name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) No, I didn't know Lewis Carroll was a pen name. Sure, cackle in delight with superiority. Lewis Carroll sounds like a perfectly viable British name (at least to me as an American). Alpha of the Plough. [Alfred George Gardiner (1865–1946) was a British journalist and author. His essays, written under the pen-name Alpha of the Plough, are highly regarded.Elia. Charles Lamb The pen name of charles lamb was Elia. This was the pen name that Charles signed his first essay. His second essay was sent unsigned to his editor and was assigned the name, 'Elia' as the author and charles adopted the name. George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans wrote under the pen name George Eliot, Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Currer Bell.Charlotte Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. Ellis Bell.ori Acton Bell Anne Bronte - pen name Acton Bell She wrote under the pseudonym Acton Bell, choosing, as did most women writers of the timeE V Odle. virginia woolf pen name --E V Odle wrote under the pen name E V Odle, In order to preserve her reputation as a ‘serious' writer and not detract from her true work she took the pen name E V Odle (it has also been suggested that the gender neutrality of this name helped her make a profit within a genre that was dominated by men). After a few adventure stories she settled into writing science fiction, a genre made popular at the time by H G Wells, and her first major financial success was the 1917 novelette The Houyhnhnm, based upon characters from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels . . After a series of mildly successful short stories Woolf (still under the pen-name Odle) started work on a serial entitled The Puppeteer God (1919), a complex story about a lonely creature who drew energy from the dreams of others, leading him to enslave his victims in a dream like trance – the world we know – without any knowledge that they were actually his prisoners. The Wachowski brothers have acknowledged its influence in the development of their 1999 hit film, The Matrix . . .Other influential works published under the name E V Odle were the 1923 novel The Clockwork Man, considered by most to be the first instance of a cyborg in fiction, and An Unwanted Guest (1925) in which an encounter with an ancient spirit sees protagonist Nancy Archer transformed into a giant. The book was later re-imagined as the 1958 camp film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman After the wide critical acclaim of Mrs Dalloway Woolf was able to focus on her more serious works and dropped the use of her pen-name, but her E V Odle books still enjoyed mainstream popularity way into the 1930s.Voltaire. (Real Name: Francois-Marie Arouet) So if you're at an all-night breakfast place and order pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment, you'll fully understand if the waitress tells you "Hold on, Francois-Marie Arouet."Pablo Neruda. (Real Name: Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto) I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda. (Just not his real name.)Ayn Rand. (Real Name: Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum) Probably would've realized this was a pen name if I'd thought about it. Or, at least, if the government had told me I was allowed to think about it.Stan Lee. (Real Name: Stanley Martin Lieber) I'm happy I live in an era where we now think our super-Jewy last names will actually HELP us get credibility. You blazed this trail, Seinfeld/Stern/Sandler/Bill Goldberg/Jonathan Lipnicki.George Eliot, going for the Princess Leia.George Eliot. (Real Name: Mary Ann Evans) I feel like once upon a time I was in an English class and we were doing "Silas Marner" and the teacher told us that a woman used the pen name "George Eliot" so she'd be taken seriously. Although, gun to my head, after well over a decade of letting that trivia knowledge atrophy, I probably couldn't have told you whether George Eliot or Silas Marner was the pen name, the book or the real name. It's the Gordon Lightfood/Edmund Fitzgerald paradox all over again.Joseph Conrad. (Real Name: Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski) Question: How many Polish authors does it take to make a heart of darkness? Answer: One to write the book and 10 to unscrew the lightbulb.Crickets.Agatha Christie. (Real Name: Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller) If twisting her own name wasn't enough, to keep her mysterion credibility, she also wrote romance novels using the pen name Mary Westmacott. Have you ever read "Murder on the Orient Ass-press"? That book's like all anal.J.K. Rowling. (Real Name: Joanne Rowling) The "K" doesn't stand for anything; she doesn't have a middle name. J.K. Rowling adding something extraneous -- who would've thunk it?A M Barnard --Louisa May Alcott A.M. Barnard was the pen name occasionally used by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888).Beatrice Culleton--Beatrice MosionierBeatrice Mosionier "In Search of April Raintree" was published in 1983, under Beatrice Culleton, her married name at the time. The novel had such impact that subsequent editions were published for high schools and for universities. This book remains one of Canada's most popular works of Aboriginal literature.
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