List of pen names
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author . A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's name may be known only to the publisher, or may come to be common knowledge.
A – F
Pen name
Real name
Details
A. C. Q. W.
Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston
19th-century American poet, novelist, hymnist, diarist
A. H. Tammsaare
Anton Hansen
20th-century Estonian writer
A. J. Finn
Daniel Mallory
Author of The Woman in the Window
A. Flowerdew
Alice Flowerdew
English teacher, religious poet, hymnist
A Friend
Mary Elizabeth Lee
19th-century American writer
A Lady
Hannah Pickard
19th-century American novelist
A Lady
Jane Austen
19th-century British novelist
A Lady of Maine
Sally Wood
Maine 's first novelist[ 1]
A Lady of Massachusetts
Sally Wood
Maine 's first novelist[ 1]
A Lady of South Carolina
Mary Elizabeth Moragne Davis
19th-century American diarist, author
A New Englander Over-Sea
John Neal
Used to publish Authorship, a Tale [ 2]
A.A. Fair
Erle Stanley Gardner
One of several that he used
Aapeli
Simo Puupponen
20th-century Finnish writer and chatty article writer
Aaron Wolfe
Dean Koontz
Abigail Van Buren
Pauline Phillips and thenJeanne Phillips
Mother and daughter advice columnists for Dear Abby
Abram Tertz
Andrei Sinyavsky
Abu Nuwas
Hasin ibn Hani al Hakami
8th-century Arabic language poet (Persia)
Acton Bell
Anne Brontë
Adasha
Katherine Grinnell
American lecturer, author, social reformer
Adidnac
Lily C. Whitaker
American author, educator
Adrienne
Julia Pleasants Creswell
19th-century American poet, novelist (also used pen name, "Amelia")
Adunis
Ali Ahmad Said Esber
Syrian poet, essayist and translator
Æ
George William Russell
Irish poet and theosophist (1867 - 1935)
Aiguillette
Matilda Marian Pullan
19th-century British writer
Alan Gould
Victor Canning
Alan Smithee
various
Pen name used by American film directors under certain circumstances
Alberto Moravia
Alberto Pincherle
Alcofribas Nasier
François Rabelais
Alex Kava
Sharon M. Kava
American author of psychological suspense novels.
Alexander Kent
Douglas Reeman
Alexis Hill Alexis Hill Jordan
Louise Titchener and Ruth Glick
20th-century American romance novelists
Algoth Tietäväinen
Algot Untola
20th-century Finnish author
Alice Acland
Anne Wignall
20th-century English author
Alice Addertongue
Benjamin Franklin
Alice Campion
Denise Tart, Jane St Vincent Welch, Jane Richards, Jenny Crocker, and Madeline Oliver
Group of Australian collaborative writers
Alma Vivian Mylo
Annie Virginia McCracken
American author, editor
Alyssa Howard
Louise Titchener , Eileen Buckholtz , Ruth Glick , and Carolyn Males
20th-century American romance novelists
Amanda Cross
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
20th-century American mystery writer
Amanda Quick
Jayne Ann Krentz
American writer of romance novels
Amelia
Amelia B. Coppuck Welby
19th-century American poet
Ana Paula Arendt
Railssa Peluti Alencar
21st-century Brazilian author
Anatole France
Jacques Anatole François Thibault
20th-century French author
Andre Norton
Alice Mary Norton
20th-century American fiction author whose other aliases include Andrew North and Allen Weston
Andrej Zivor
Andrej Tisma
Andrew MacAllan
James Leasor
20th-century British writer
Andrew MacDonald
William Luther Pierce
Ann Atom
Jeannette H. Walworth
19th-century American novelist, journalist
Ann Landers
Ruth Crowley and thenEppie Lederer
Advice columnists for Ask Ann Landers
Anna L. Cunningham
Ada Langworthy Collier
American poet, writer
Anne Chaplet
Cora Stephan
20th-century German crime novelist and journalist
Anne Drinker
Edith May
19th-century American writer
Anne Hathaway
Mary Bigelow Ingham
American writer, educator, social reformer
Anne Knish
Arthur Davison Ficke
Co-author of Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments
Anne Marreco
Anne Wignall
20th-century English author
Anne Perry
Juliet Marion Hulme
Anne Rice
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Other aliases: Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure
Annulet Andrews
Maude Andrews Ohl
American journalist, poet, novelist
Anonymous
Joe Klein
Used to conceal his identity for the initial publication of the novel Primary Colors
Anthony Afterwit
Benjamin Franklin
Anthony Boucher
William Anthony Parker White
American science fiction editor and writer of mystery novels and short stories
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson
20th-century British writer
Anthony Gilbert
Lucy Beatrice Malleson
British author of the Arthur Crook crime fiction novels
Anthony Mills
William Joseph Slim
British military commander after writing novels, short stories, and other publications earlier in his career.
Anthony North
Dean Koontz
Antosha Chekhonte
Anton Chekhov
19th-century Russian physician and author, who also used the pseudonyms "Man Without a Spleen" and "My Brother's Brother"[ 3]
Arkon Daraul
Idries Shah
Artemus Ward
Charles Farrar Browne
19th-century American humor writer
Asdreni
Aleksandër Stavre Drenova
20th-century Albanian poet
Auber Forestier
Aubertine Woodward Moore
19th-century American musician, writer
Aunt Dorothy
Lettie S. Bigelow
American poet and author of the long nineteenth century
Aunt Fanny
Frances Elizabeth Barrow
19th-century American children's writer
Aunt Julia
Julia Colman
American temperance educator, activist, editor, writer of the long nineteenth century
Aunt Libbie
Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt
American philosopher, author of the long nineteenth century
Aunt Marjorie
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
American poet, author, editor of the long nineteenth century
Aunt Nabby
Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell
American novelist, short-story writer of the long nineteenth century
Aunt Philury
Helen M. Winslow
American editor, author, publisher, journalist of the long nineteenth century
Aunt Stomly
Emeline S. Burlingame
American editor and evangelist of the long nineteenth century
Avi
Edward Irving Wortis
Ayako Sono
Chizuko Miura
20th-century Japanese novelist
Ayn Rand
Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum
20th-century fiction writer and creator of the philosophy Objectivism
Azorín
José Martínez Ruiz
B.
Phoebe Hinsdale Brown
19th-century American hymnwriter
B. Traven
unknown
20th-century novelist, aka Bruno Traven
B. E. E.
E. E. Brown
19th-century American writer, artist
B. F. Cocker
Benjamin Franklin
Ba Jin
Li Yaotang
20th-century Chinese writer
Banaphul
Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy
Bengali author, playwright and poet
Barbara Michaels
Barbara Mertz
Barbara Vine
Ruth Rendell
Late 20th- and early 21st-century British author who wrote a subset of her work under this pseudonym
Bartholomew Gill
Mark C. McGarrity
American crime fiction novelist and newspaper feature writer of nature and outdoor recreation topics
BB
Denys Watkins-Pitchford
20th-century illustrator and children's book author
Beachcomber
J. B. Morton and D. B. Wyndham Lewis
Used for the surrealist humorous column By the Way in the Daily Express
bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins
Belle Bremer
Martina Swafford
American poet of the long nineteenth century
Benevolus
Benjamin Franklin
Berrintho
Robert Roberthin
17th-century German poet
Bessie Beech
Martha D. Lincoln
American author and journalist of the long nineteenth century
Betsey Bancker
Mary E. C. Bancker
American author of the long nineteenth century
Bharathidasan
Kanagasabai Subburathnam
20th-century Tamil poet
Bing Xin
Xie Wanying
20th-century Chinese writer
Blaise Cendrars
Frédéric Louis Sauser
Bob Hart
Al Trace
Boris Akunin
Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili
Boum
Samantha Leriche-Gionet
French Canadian animator, illustrator, and comic strip author
Boz
Charles Dickens
19th-century British novelist
Boz
Raymond Burrell
Brada
Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Countess of Quigini Puliga
French writer, novelist
Branislav Nušić
Alkibijad Nuša
Brian Coffey
Dean Koontz
Brynjolf Bjarme
Henrik Ibsen
Busy Body
Benjamin Franklin
C 33
Oscar Wilde
C. H. H.
Clara H. Hazelrigg
American author, educator, reformer
C. H. Stranahan
Clara Harrison Stranahan
American author, college founder
C. S. Forester
Cecil Smith
20th-century writer of the Captain Horatio Hornblower novels, The African Queen , and other novels
Caelia Shortface
Benjamin Franklin
Camilla K. Von K.
Mary Hall-Wood
19th-century American poet, editor, author
Cantinflas
Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes
Caris Sima
Clara Mountcastle
19th-century Canadian author
Carr Dickson
John Dickson Carr
20th-century author of detective stories
Carter Dickson
John Dickson Carr
20th-century author of detective stories
Carter Holmes
John Neal
Used when writing for Blackwood's Magazine [ 4]
Cassandra
William Connor
20th-century left-wing journalist for The Daily Mirror
Cassandra Clare
Judith Rumelt Lewis
American author of young adult fiction
Catharine Carr
Rosalind Wade
British novelist
Catherine Cole
Martha R. Field
American journalist
Catherine Shaw
Leila Schneps
Author of mathematically themed classic murder mysteries
Chanakya
Jawaharlal Nehru
First Indian Prime Minister
Charles Louis Bernays
Karl Ludwig Bernays
German journalist
Charles C. Lee
Martha Parmelee Rose
American non-fiction writer
Charles Moulton
William Moulton Marston
Creator of Wonder Woman comic book character
Charles Norden
Lawrence Durrell
Author of The Alexandria Quartet and Panic Spring as Norden
Charlotte
Charlotte Fillebrown Jerauld
American poet, story writer
Charlotte Jay
Geraldine Halls
Cherry Wilder
Cherry Barbara Grimm
Cherubina de Gabriak
Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva
Christian Reid
Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan
American author of Land of the Sky
Christianna Brand
Mary Christianna Lewis
British crime fiction writer
Christopher Pike
Kevin Christopher McFadden
Prolific author of young-adult horror and sci-fi novels
Citizen
Sarah Carmichael Harrell
American educator, temperance reformer, writer
Claire Morgan
Patricia Highsmith
American novelist and short story writer
Clare Richards Clare Richmond
Louise Titchener and Carolyn Males
20th-century American romance novelists
Clarence Wellford
Louise Collier Willcox
American author, editor, anthologist, translator
Clark McMeekin
Dorothy Clark and Isabel McMeekin
Wrote historical novels
Clem Watts
Al Trace
Clinton Montague
H. Maria George Colby
American writer
Clive Hamilton, N. W. Clerk
C. S. Lewis
Used when publishing Spirits in Bondage and Dymer
Colin Douglas
Colin Thomas Currie
20th-century Scottish novelist
Coralie
Mary M. Cohen
American social economist, writer
Cordwainer Smith
Paul M. A. Linebarger
20th-century science fiction author
Cousin Annie
Annie Maria Barnes
American journalist, editor, author
Cress
Alice Hobbins Porter
British-born American journalist, editor
Currer Bell
Charlotte Brontë
Curzio Malaparte
Kurt Erich Suckert
Daisy Eyebright
Sophia Orne Johnson
19th-century American author
Dan Crow
Ernest Aris
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Foe
Daniil Kharms
Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev
Danuta de Rhodes
Dan Rhodes
David Agnew
various
Pen name used by BBC television drama screenwriters under certain circumstances
David Axton
Dean Koontz
David Meade
unknown
American conspiracy theorist , researcher, and book author
David Michaels
Raymond Benson
Davina Blake
Deborah Swift
Used for her more contemporary work
Dazai Osamu
Shuji Tsushima
Deanna Dwyer
Dean Koontz
Diablo Cody
Brook Busey
Screenwriter
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Washington Irving
Early 19th-century U.S. writer
Dimasalang
José Rizal
National hero of the Philippines, author of Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo
Dina Linwood
S. M. I. Henry
American evangelist, temperance reformer, poet, author
Dominique Aury
Anne Desclos
20th-century French author and critic who wrote under this name for her early works
Dora Rosetti
Nelli Kaloglopoulou
20th-century Greek LGBT author
Douglas Spaulding
Ray Bradbury
Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel
20th-century American writer and cartoonist, best known for his children's books; aka Theo LeSieg for books that he wrote and others illustrated
E. B. C.
Essie B. Cheesborough
19th-century prolific American writer
E. Cavazza; Elisabeth Pullen
Elisabeth Cavazza
American author, journalist, music critic
E. G. A.
Emily Gillmore Alden
American author, educator
E. L. James
Erika Leonard, born Erika Mitchell
Author of Fifty Shades of Grey
E. Livingston Prescott
Edith Spicer Jay
British military novelist
E. N. Chapin
Nettie Sanford Chapin
19th-century American historian, author, newspaper publisher
E. S. Elliott
Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott
19th-century English poet, hymnwriter, novelist, editor
E. V. Cunningham
Howard Fast
American novelist
Eando Binder
Earl and Otto Binder
Mid-20th-century science fiction authors
Eckhart Tolle
Ulrich Leonard Tolle
Author of The Power of Now
Ed McBain
Evan Hunter, born as Salvatore A. Lombino
Edgar Box
Gore Vidal
Edith Van Dyne
L. Frank Baum
Edmond Dantès
John Hughes
20th-century American screenwriter and director; used this name on later works
Edmund Crispin
Robert Bruce Montgomery
British crime fiction writer
Edogawa Ranpo
Tarō Hirai
Edward Charles
Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted
20th-century British educator and author
Edward Fallon
Robert Gregory Browne, J.D. Rhoades, Tim Tresslar, Will Graham, Rob Cornell, Allan Leverone
Supernatural suspense series LINGER, written by multiple authors.
Edward Garrett
Isabella Fyvie Mayo
19th-century Scottish poet, novelist
Edward Pygge
Ian Hamilton , John Fuller , Clive James , Russell Davies
Edwin Caskoden
Charles Major
Egor Don
Eugene Gordon (writer)
African-American journalist
Effie Johnson
E. J. Richmond
American author
Elaine
Kate Simpson Hayes
Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet
Eleanor Kirk
Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames
19th-century American writer
Eleanor Putnam
Harriet Bates
19th-century American poet, novelist
Elena Ferrante
unknown
Italian novelist
Eleonore von Münster
Eleonore von Grothaus
18th-century German writer
Elia
Charles Lamb
The pen name Lamb used as a contributor to The London Magazine .
Eliza
Elizabeth Carter
English poet, classicist, writer, translator, linguist, polymath
Elizabeth Peters
Barbara Mertz
Ellen Burroughs
Sophie Jewett
American poet, translator, and professor
Ellery Queen
Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee
20th-century detective fiction
Ellis Bell
Emily Brontë
Ellis Peters
Edith Pargeter
Elma South
Essie B. Cheesborough
19th-century prolific American writer
Elsa Triolet
Elsa Kagan
Elsie J. Oxenham
Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley
Em Kol Chai
Chava Shapiro
Emanuel Morgan
Witter Bynner
Co-author of Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments
Emil Sinclair
Hermann Hesse
Demian was originally published under this pseudonym.
Émile Ajar
Romain Gary
French author; only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, once under his real name, and once under his pen name
Emilia Serrano de Wilson
Emilia Serrano y García
Spanish writer, journalist, feminist, traveler
Emily Hawthorne
Emily Thornton Charles
19th-century American poet, journalist, editor, newspaper founder
Emily Rodda
Jennifer Rowe
Australian children's fantasy author; published crime fiction for adults under her own name; also writes under the alias Mary-Ann Dickinson
Emma Lathen
Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart
Economist/lawyer team write humorous banking mysteries with global scope
Ena Fitzgerald
Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher MacMillan
Edwardian era English novelist, poet, short story writer
Enna Duval
Anne Hampton Brewster
Eric Iverson
Harry Turtledove
Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Paul Remark
Erin Hunter
Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Victoria Holmes
Authors of the fantasy novel series Warriors
Erle Douglas
Eliza D. Keith
American educator, suffragist, journalist
Eulalie
Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon
19th-century American poet, short story writer
Euphrosyne
Julia Nyberg
Eva
Fanny Tuxen
19th-century Danish writer
Eva G.
Eva Griffith Thompson
American newspaper editor
Fan-Fan
F. Burge Griswold
19th-century American author
Fanny Clar
Clara Fanny Olivier
French journalist, writer
Fernán Caballero
Cecilia Böhl de Faber
Spanish author
Fidelitas
Anna Blackwell
19th-century British writer, journalist, translator
Filia Ecclesia
Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp
British-born American educator, author
Flann O'Brien
Brian O'Nolan
Florio
Fanny Purdy Palmer
American author, poet, journalist, lecturer, social activist, clubwoman
Floyd Bentley
Sarah Dyer Hobart
American poet, author
Ford Madox Ford
Ford Hermann Hueffer
Early 20th-century English novelist and poet
Frances Brody
Frances McNeil
Francis Bennett
Edwin Keppel Bennett
Frank Dashmore
Fanny Murdaugh Downing
19th-century American author, poet
Franklin W. Dixon
Leslie McFarlane
20th-century Canadian writer was the first of a variety of different authors to use this pen name for The Hardy Boys novels
Françoise Sagan
Françoise Quoirez
G – L
Pen name
Real name
Details
Gisèle d'Estoc
Marie-Paule Alice Courbe
19th-century French writer, sculptor, feminist
Gabriela Mistral
Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945
Gabrielle Réval
Gabrielle Élise Victoire Logerot
French novelist, essayist
Gale Forest
Emma May Alexander Reinertsen
American writer, social reformer
Garth Godfrey
Agnes Leonard Hill
American journalist, author, poet, newspaper founder and publisher, evangelist, social reformer
Geoffrey Crayon
Washington Irving
Used when publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans
19th-century English novelist
George Groth
Martin Gardner
Criticized Gardner's The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair
20th-century British author and essayist
George Sand
Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin
19th-century French novelist and early feminist
Georges Courteline
Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux
Gérard de Nerval
Gérard Labrunie
19th-century French poet, essayist and translator
Gerald Wiley
Ronnie Barker
Geronimo Stilton
Elisabetta Dami
Author of the Geronimo Stilton series; Geronimo Stilton is the title character in the series
Gertrude Glenn
Mary Ware
American "southland" poet, prose writer
Gertrude St. Orme
Annie McCarer Darlington
American poet
Grace Goodhouse
Evalena Fryer Hedley
American journalist, editor, and author
Grace Greenwood
Sara Jane Lippincott
American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, newspaper founder
Grace Shirley
Lurana W. Sheldon
American novelist, poet, lecturer, editor
Graham R. Tomson
Rosamund Marriott Watson
British poet and critic
Grant Naylor
Rob Grant and Doug Naylor
Late 20th-century creators of the science fiction-sitcom, Red Dwarf
Guillaume Apollinaire
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki
20th-century French poet, writer, and art critic
Gulzar
Sampooran Singh Kalra
Noted Indian poet, lyricist, director, and playwright, who works primarily in Hindi and Urdu languages
Gun Buster
John Charles Austin and Richard Campion Austin
Father and son team who wrote a series of books about British exploits in World War II
Guy Cullingford
Constance Lindsay Taylor
20th-century British mystery author and screenwriter
H.D.
Hilda Doolittle
20th-century American imagist poet, novelist and memoirist
H.E. Sayeh
Hushang Ebtehaj
20th-century Iranian poet (هوشنگ ابتهاج)
H. E. P.
Harriet Pritchard Arnold
19th-century American author
H. M. M.
Helen Merrill Egerton
20th-century Canadian author
H. Maery or Helen Maery
Mary Theodosia Mug
19th- and 20th-century American nun, author, poet, and composer
H. N. Turtletaub
Harry Turtledove
H. S.
Henrietta Skelto
19th-century German-born Canadian-American social reformer, writer, organizer, lecturer in the German Spanish, English languages
H. T. C.
Helen Taggart Clark
American journalist, poet
Hagar
Jennie Phelps Purvis
American writer; California pioneer
Hajime Yatate
various
Pen name of Sunrise animation staff members
Hans Fallada
Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen
German writer
Hard Pan
Geraldine Bonner
Harold Robbins
Harold Rubin
Havank
Hans van der Kallen
Henri Ardel
Berthe Abraham
French writer
Henri Gordon
Clara M. Brinkerhoff
19th-century British soprano and romance novelist
Henriett Seth F.
Fajcsák Henrietta
Henriette Hardenberg
Margarete Rosenberg
Henry Chalgrain
Harlette Hayem
French woman of letters who wrote literary articles and poetry
Henry Handel Richardson
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson
Early 20th-century Australian author
Henry Wade
Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet
British mystery writer (1887-1969)
Herblock
Herbert Lawrence Block
20th-century political cartoonist
Hergé
Georges Remi
20th-century Belgian cartoonist and creator of The Adventures of Tintin
Hero Strong
Clara Augusta Jones Trask
19th-century American dime-novelist
Hugh Conway
Frederick John Fargus
Humphrey Ploughjogger
John Adams
2nd US president and Founding Father (1735-1826)
Hugh McDiarmid
C M Grieve
Scottish Renaissance poet
I. McC. Wilson
Ibbie McColm Wilson
American poet
Ian Maclaren
Rev John Watson
Scottish author and theologian
Ianthe
Emma Catherine Embury
19th-century American author, poet
Ibn Warraq
various
Pen name has traditionally been adopted by dissident authors throughout the history of Islam, including a current writer from India
Iceberg Slim
Robert Beck
African American writer
Ida Fairfield
Mary Bassett Clarke
19th-century American writer
Ida Glenwood
Cynthia Roberts Gorton
19th-century blind American poet, author
Ide Delmar
Essie B. Cheesborough
19th-century American writer
Ilkka Remes
Petri Pykälä
20th- and 21st-century Finnish writer
Ilya Ilf
Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg
Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin
Inez
Frances Laughton Mace
19th-century American poet
Ion Barbu
Dan Barbilian
20th-century Romanian poet and mathematician
Iota
Dorothy Ann Thrupp
19th-century British Psalmist, hymnwriter, translator
Irmari Rantamala
Algot Untola
20th-century Finnish author
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shamforoff
Isak Dinesen
Karen Blixen
20th-century Danish author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast
Isola
Mrs. Bartle Teeling
Guernsey writer
Italo Svevo
Aron Ettore Schmitz
Iyanla Vanzant
Rhonda Eva Harris
Author, spiritual teacher, and television personality
J. D. Robb
Nora Roberts
J. E. McConaughy
Julia Eliza McConaughy
19th-century American litterateur and author of religious literature
J. F. O'Donnell
Jessie Fremont O'Donnell
19th-century American writer
J. I. Vatanen
Algot Untola
20th-century Finnish author
J. K. Mayo
William Watson
Scottish author of spy thrillers
J. K. Rowling
Joanne Rowling
British author of the Harry Potter books
J. T.
Jeanette Threlfall
British hymnwriter, poet
Jack Kirby
Jacob Kurtzberg
Comic book pioneer
Jack the Ripper
unknown
Victorian serial killer, author of Dear Boss letter and From Hell letter
Jamal T. Millwood
Chris Todd
Released the supposed memoir of Kim Porter , Kim's lost words
James Dillinger
James Robert Baker
James Herriot
James Alfred Wight
20th-century British writer
James S. A. Corey
Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck
Authors of science fiction series The Expanse
James Tiptree Jr.
Alice Bradley Sheldon
20th-century science fiction author[ 5]
Jane Somers
Doris Lessing
The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If The Old Could
Janet Grant
Mary Catherine Crowley
American writer
Janez Janša (visual artist) , Janez Janša (director) , and Janez Janša (performance artist)
various
Pen name used by three contemporary artists who changed their names in 2007[ 6] to the name of the Slovenian right-wing politician
Jay Livingston
Jacob Harold Levison
Jean D'Anin
Marie Léra
French journalist, novelist, translator
Jean Kincaid
Estelle M. H. Merrill
American journalist, editor
Jean de La Brète
Alice Cherbonnel
French novelist
Jean de Lutry
Jeanine Delpech
French journalist, translator, novelist
Jean Paul
Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Plaidy
Eleanor Hibbert
Jean Ray
Raymundus Joannes de Kremer
Jehu O'Cataract
John Neal
Pen name given to the author by fellow Delphian Club members[ 7]
Jemyma
Marietta Holley
American humorist
Jennie Woodbine
Annie R. Blount
American poet, short story writer, and newspaper editor
Jennie Crayon
Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan
American author, journalist
Jeremy Bishop
Jeremy Robinson
Jin Yong
Louis Cha Leung-yung
20th-century Chinese-language novelist
Joan Ure
Elizabeth Thoms Clark
Scottish poet and playwright
Joe Hill
Joseph Hillstrom King
Johann Joachim Sautscheck
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk
Johannes Linnankoski
Vihtori Johan Peltonen
Johannes de silentio
Søren Kierkegaard
Johannes Vares Barbarus
Johannes Vares
John Beynon
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer
John Christopher
Samuel Youd
John G. Andrews
Emma Huntington Nason
American poet, author, musical composer
John Hill
Dean Koontz
John Lange
Michael Crichton
20th-century science fiction author
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell
20th-century British writer
John O'Cataract
John Neal
Used to publish Battle of Niagara, a Poem, without Notes; and Goldau, or the Maniac Harper [ 8]
John Sedges
Pearl S. Buck
Author of "The Townsman"
John Wyndham
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer
Johny Hunt
Margaret Hunt Brisbane
American poet
Jonathan Oldstyle
Washington Irving
Author of Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.
Joseph Conrad
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
20th-century Polish-British author
Joseph Howard
Paul Rudnick
Screenwriting credit for Sister Act ; he refused to have his real name associated with it
Josephine Tey
Elizabeth MacKintosh
20th-century British writer, who also used the pseudonym "Gordon Daviot"
Judith Jorgenson
Ella Hamilton Durley
Late 19th/early 20th-c American educator, newspaper editor, journalist
Juhani Tervapää
Hella Wuolijoki
20th-century Estonian-born Finnish writer
Julia Quinn
Julia Pottinger
Julien Gordon
Julia Cruger
American novelist
Justitia
Emily Parmely Collins
American suffragist, activist, writer
K. Hardesh
Clement Greenberg
20th-century American art critic
Kamba Thorpe
Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy
19th-century American author
Karl Rene Moore
A. R. Morlan
American novelist and short story writer
Kate Cleaveland
Rebecca S. Nichols
19th-century American poet
Kate Elliott
Alis A. Rasmussen
20th/21st-century fantasy author
Ka-Tsetnik 135633
Yehiel De-Nur
Kennilworthy Whisp
Joanne Rowling (J. K. Rowling )
Used for the publication of Quidditch Through the Ages , from the Harry Potter universe
Kir Bulychov
Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (Игорь Всеволодович Можейко)
20th-century Russian science fiction writer and historian
Korney Chukovsky
Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov
Kozma Prutkov
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov , and two others
Collective name who published in Sovremennik during 1836–1866
Kurban Said
disputed
Author of Ali and Nino , a novel originally published in 1937
L.
Lois Bryan Adams
19th-century American writer; newspaper editor/proprietor
L. H. S.
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
19th-century American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, philanthropist
L. M. N.
Maria Frances Anderson
19th-century French-born American hymnwriter and writer
Laong Laan
José Rizal
Laura
María del Pilar Sinués de Marco
prolific 19th-century Spanish writer of novels, poems, and non-fiction; newspaper editor
Lauren Kelly
Joyce Carol Oates
Author of Blood Mask , The Stolen Heart , and Take Me, Take Me With You
Lazlo Toth
Don Novello
Author of the satiric The Lazlo Letters and other books; the name was taken from that of a deranged Hungarian-born Australian man named Laszlo Toth who vandalized Michelangelo's statue Pieta in Rome
Leigh Nichols
Dean Koontz
Lemony Snicket
Daniel Handler
Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
Lena
Mary Torrans Lathrap
19th-century American poet, preacher, suffragist, social reformer
Lenora
Lou Singletary Bedford
19th-century American poet, author, editor
Leoline
Emma B. Dunham
American poet, teacher
Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin
Half-Chinese, half-English author of primarily mystery fiction such as the Simon Templar series
Lester del Rey
Leonard Knapp
American science fiction author and editor
Lewis Allan
Abel Meeropol
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
19th-century British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Padgett
Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore
American husband and wife science fiction authors
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
James Leslie Mitchell
20th-century Scottish novelist
Lewtrah
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
19th-century American writer
Liisan-Antti ja Jussi Porilainen
Algot Untola
20th-century Finnish author
Lisa Ben
Edythe D. Eyde
20th-century American author
L'Inconnue
Lucy Virginia French
19th-century American author
Lizzie M. Boynton
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
19th-century American author, lecturer, reformer philanthropist
Lobsang Rampa
Cyril Henry Hoskin
The author of The Third Eye , supposedly authentic autobiography of a monk born in Tibet, who was unmasked as a British plumber that decided in 1958 to write the bestseller
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Emmanuele Conegliano
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
Louis Hammond Willis
Louise Hammond Willis Snead
American writer, lecturer, artist
Lu Xun
Zhou Shuren
20th-century Chinese writer and cultural critic
Lucas Parkes
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris
Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer
Lucile
Lucinda Barbour Helm
American author, editor, women's religious activist
Lucrece
Cora Linn Daniels
American author
Luisa Cappiani
Luisa Kapp-Young
Austrian soprano, musical educator, essayist
Lydia Koidula
Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen
M – R
Pen name
Real name
Details
M. C. G.
Mary C. Billings
19th-century American writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary
M. E. C. Bates
Martha Elizabeth Cram Bates
American writer, journalist, newspaper editor
M. E. W.
Marion E. Warner
American poet and short story writer
M. R. M.
Mary Rootes Thornton McAboy
19th-century American poet
M. S. Pine
Mary Paulina Finn
19th- and 20th-century nun, playwright, poet, author, and English teacher.
M. Barnard Eldershaw
Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw
M. Wintermute
Martha Wintermute
American author, poet
Maarten Maartens
Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz
Mabel Percy
Mary R. P. Hatch
19th-century American writer
Mabelle
Hannah Tobey Farmer
19th-century American writer, philanthropist, social reformer
Maddox
George Ouzounian
American author known for his website The Best Page in the Universe
Madhur Piya
Gokulotsavji Maharaj
Indian classical vocalist, composer
Mackenzi Lee
MacKenzie Van Engelenhoven
American young adult fantasy author
Madeleine Brent
Peter O'Donnell
Maiju Lassila
Algot Untola
20th-century Finnish author
Maironis
Jonas Mačiulis
Mao Dun
Shen Dehong
20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist
Marc Hélys
Marie Léra
French journalist, novelist, translator
Margaret Allston
Anna Farquhar Bergengren
American writer, editor
Margaret Frances
Frances Margaret Milne
Irish-born American author, librarian
Margaret Vandegrift
Margaret Thomson Janvier
American poet and children's book writer
Margaret Wynman
Ella Hepworth Dixon
English author, editor
Margret Holmes Bates
Martha Mary Viktoria Ernsperger Bates
American author
Marguerite
Jessie Margaret King
19th-century Scottish essayist, journalist, poet
Marian Douglas
Annie Douglas Green Robinson
American poet and short story writer
Marie Norman
Mary E. Ireland
American author, translator
Marion Howard
Marion Howard Brazier
American journalist, author
Mark Brandis
Nikolai von Michalewsky
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
19th-century American humorist, author, and lecturer
Marka Wohl
Kate Simpson Hayes
Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet
Martha Careful
Benjamin Franklin
Marton Taiga
Martti Löfberg
20th-century Finnish pulp writer, who also used several other pseudonym
Mary Doyle
Mary Evelyn Hitchcock
American author, explorer
Mary Hartwell
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
19th-century American writer
Mary A. Holmes
Georgie A. Hulse McLeod
19th-century American author, hymnwriter
Mary Markwell
Kate Simpson Hayes
Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet
Mary Westmacott
Agatha Christie
20th-century British writer who wrote some of her works under this pseudonym
Matthew Bramble
Andrew Macdonald
Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright
Mattie May
Martha Pearson Smith
American poet, musician
Max Halstock
James Leasor
20th-century British writer
Max Stirner
Johann Kaspar Schmidt
19th-century German philosopher
Maxwell Grant
Primarily Walter B. Gibson , shared with Theodore Tinsley , Bruce Elliott and Lester Dent
Author of The Shadow pulp novellas
Maya Angelou
Marguerite Annie Johnson
African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist
Meg
Mary Temple Bayard
American writer, journalist
Mencius Moldbug
Curtis Yarvin
21st-century political theorist
Mercedes
Katherine Eleanor Conway
Editor-in-chief of The Pilot
Mercurius Oxoniensis
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Historian, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and author of the pseudonymous Letters of Mercurius Oxoniensis to his 'brother' Londiniensis which appeared in the Spectator Magazine 1970–71 and later in book form
Michael Arlen
Dikran Kuyumjian
Michael Innes
J. I. M. Stewart
Michael Serafian
Malachi Martin
Migjeni
Millosh Gjergj Nikolla
20th-century Albanian poet
Miles Standish
Lelia P. Roby
American writer
Minnie C. Ballard
Mary Canfield Ballard
19th-century American poet, hymnwriter
Minnie Mary Lee
Julia Amanda Sargent Wood
19th-century American author
Minnie Myrtle Miller
Theresa Dyer
19th-century American author
Miranda
Mathilde Alanic
French writer of sentimental novels and short stories
Miss Manners
Judith Martin
Author, columnist, and etiquette authority
Mizpah
Mildred A. Bonham
19th-century American traveler and journalist
Moina
Anna Peyre Dinnies
19th-century American poet, miscellaneous writer
Molière
Jean Baptiste Poquelin
17th-century French theatre writer, director and actor, and writer of comic satire
Mollie Myrtle
Agnes Leonard Hill
American journalist, author, poet, newspaper founder and publisher, evangelist, social reformer
Mother Goose
Jeannette H. Walworth
19th-century American novelist, journalist
Motte Hall
Essie B. Cheesborough
19th-century prolific American writer
Mr. Blackwell
Richard Sylvan Selzer
Fashion critic, journalist, creator of annual "Ten Worst Dressed Women List". Also used the alias "Richard Blackwell".
Mrs. A. Elmore
Ann Morrison Moore
American writer, editor, activist, philanthropist
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller
Mittie Frances Clarke Point
American dime-novelist
Mrs. Alfred Barnard
Frances Catherine Barnard
19th-century English writer, poet, playwright
Mrs. B. C. Rude
Ellen Sergeant Rude
American poet, author, temperance reformer
Mrs. Benjamin H. Craig
Cola Barr Craig
American novelist and short story writer
Mrs. Chapman Coleman
Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman
19th-century American author, translator
Mrs. Clarissa Packard
Caroline Howard Gilman
19th-century American author
Mrs. E. Burke Collins
Emma Augusta Sharkey
19th-century American dime novelist
Mrs. Findley Braden
Anna Braden
American poet, author, editor
Mrs. Francis Rye
Amy Louisa Rye
British-born Canadian writer, social reformer
Mrs. George Archibald
Anna Campbell Palmer
American author, editor
Mrs. George W. Coleman
Alice Blanchard Coleman
American missionary society leader; periodical literature writer
Mrs. H
Anna Morris Holstein
American civil war nurse, author, organizational founder
Mrs. H. E. G. Arey
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey
19th-century American educator, author, editor, publisher
Mrs. J. C. Bateham
Josephine Cushman Bateham
American editor, writer
Mrs. J. T. Gracey
Annie Ryder Gracey
American writer, missionary
Mrs. James Gray
Mary Ann Browne
British poet, writer of musical scores
Mrs. Madeline Leslie
Harriette Newell Woods Baker
19th-century American novelist, religious writer
Mrs. Manners
Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Richards
19th-century American writer
Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin
Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin
19th-century American author and social activist
Mrs. S. L. Baldwin
Esther E. Baldwin
American missionary, teacher, translator, writer, editor
Mrs. Thaddeus Horton
Corinne Stocker Horton
American writer, editor
Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts
Sara Jane Crafts
American writer, educator, social reformer
Mrs. William Maude
Sophie Dora Spicer Maude
British novelist, writer
Mrs. William Starr Dana
Frances Theodora Parsons
19th-century American nature writer
Multatuli
Eduard Douwes Dekker
Dutch writer known for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860)
Murray Leinster
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
20th-century science fiction author
N. W. Clerk
C. S. Lewis
Used when publishing A Grief Observed
Nancy Boyd
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Natsume Sōseki
Natsume Kinnosuke
Early 20th-century Japanese novelist
Nellie A. Mann
Helen Adelia Manville
19th-century American poet, litterateur
Neville Shute
Neville Norway
British novelist
Newt Scamander
Joanne Rowling (J. K. Rowling )
Used for the publication of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them , from the Harry Potter universe
Nicci French
Nicci Gerard and Sean French
British crime fiction team
Nicolas Blake
Cecil Day-Lewis
Poet Laureate of the U.K., 20 mysteries written as Nicolas Blake
Nicolas Bourbaki
various
A group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians
Nimrod
Charles James Apperley
19th-century author of The Chase, The Road, and The Turf (on foxhunting, coaching and racing respectively)
Nina Gray Clarke
Mary H. Gray Clarke
19th-century American author, correspondent, poet
Nino Culotta
John O'Grady
Australian writer
Nisa
Nicola Salerno
Italian lyricist
Norman Stuart
Mrs. Bartle Teeling
Guernsey writer
Novalis
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter
American author of short stories and novels
Octavia Hensel
Mary Alice Fonda
19th-century American musician, author, elocutionist, critic
Ogdred Weary
Edward Gorey
Olive Thorne
Harriet Mann Miller
American author, naturalist, ornithologist
Olivie Blake
Alexene Farol Follmuth
American author
Onoto Watanna
Winnifred Eaton
Canadian author
Ouida
Marie Louise de la Ramée
19th-century English novelist
Owen West
Dean Koontz
P. Albane
Pauline Cassin Caro
19th-century French novelist
P. L. Travers
Helen Goff
Writer of the Mary Poppins series
P. Mustapää
Martti Haavio
20th-century Finnish poet
Pablo Neruda
Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
20th-century Chilean poet, Nobel laureate
Pat Frank
Harry Hart Frank
20th-century author of the apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon
Patience Strong
Winifred Emma May
20th-century English poet
Paul Annixter
Howard Allison Sturtzel
Paul Celan
Paul Antschel
Paul Éluard
Eugène Grindel
20th-century French Dada and Surrealist poet
Paul French
Isaac Asimov
U.S. science fiction author, when publishing the Lucky Starr series of novels
Paul Veronique
Elizabeth Marney Conner
19th-century American writer, founder of the Buffalo School of Elocution
Pauline Periwinkle
S. Isadore Miner
American journalist, poet, teacher, feminist
Pauline Réage
Anne Desclos
20th-century French author and critic who wrote Story of O
Peg Woffington
Eve Brodlique
British-born Canadian/American author, journalist
Pepeta Roig
Antònia Abelló
Spanish journalist, writer
Peggy Pond Church
Margaret Hallett Pond
American author, poet
Percy Larkin
Fannie B. Damon
American writer, magazine editor
Perez Hilton
Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.
Celebrity blogger and gossip columnist
Peter Gast
Heinrich Köselitz
Peter MacAlan
Peter Berresford Ellis
20th-century British novelist
Peter Tremayne
Peter Berresford Ellis
20th-century British novelist
Peter Warlock
Philip Arnold Heseltine
20th-century British composer
Petresia Peters
Julia Carter Aldrich
American author
Peyo
Pierre Culliford
20th-century creator of The Smurfs comics
Philemon
Betsy Perk
Dutch author, a pioneer of the Dutch women's movement
Philip Guston
Phillip Goldstein
Pierre Delecto
Mitt Romney
American politician and businessman, when using a secret Twitter account in 2019
Pierre Guérande
Hermine Lecomte du Noüy
French novelist, playwright
Pierre Loti
Louis Marie Julien Viaud
Pierre Moustiers
Pierre Rossi
French writer, laureate of the 1969 Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
Piers Anthony
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob
Pisanus Fraxi
Henry Spencer Ashbee
19th-century book collector, writer, bibliographer, and author of a three-volume bibliography of erotic literature
Pittacus Lore
James Frey , Jobie Hughes, and Greg Boose
Authors of the Lorien Legacies series; Pittacus Lore is also a character in the series
Plaridel
Marcelo H. del Pilar
Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, freemason, and propagandist
Polly
Emma Sheridan Fry
American actor, playwright, teacher
Polly Baker
Benjamin Franklin
Premchand
Dhanpat Rai Srivastav
Indian author, notable for his modern Hindustani literature
Probus
Nancy H. Adsit
19th-century American art lecturer, art educator, writer
Publius
Alexander Hamilton , James Madison , and John Jay
Writers of The Federalist Papers
Publius Decius Mus
Michael Anton
21st-century American conservative
Professor X
unknown
21st-century author of In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
Pseudonymous Bosch
Raphael Simon
Author of The Secret Series , fictional children's books
Q
Arthur Quiller-Couch
Late 19th- and early 20th-century British author, poet, and literary critic
Quinn Fawcett
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett
American mystery authors
Raccoona Sheldon
Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr. )
20th-century science fiction author
Rachel Bach
Rachel Aaron
American science fiction author
Rafael Luna
Matilde Cherner
Spanish novelist, dramatist, literary critic, and journalist
Refugitta
Constance Cary Harrison
American writer
Regina Frohberg
Rebecca Friedländer
German novelist and short-story writer
Rehmat Farrukhabadi
Muhammad Rehmatullah Qureshi
Author and Muslim scholar
Renada-Laura Portet
Renada-Laura Calmon-Ouillet
French Northern Catalonia writer and linguist
Renee M. Charles
A. R. Morlan
American novelist and short story writer
Rhys Bowen
Janet Quin-Harkin
British mystery writer
Richard Bachman
Stephen King
Contemporary American horror author
Richard Hackstaff
Lurana W. Sheldon
American novelist, poet, lecturer, editor
Richard Leander
Richard von Volkmann
Richard Paige
Dean Koontz
Richard Saunders
Benjamin Franklin
The "Poor Richard" of Poor Richard's Almanack
Richard Stark
Donald E. Westlake
Westlake used many other pen names as well
Robert Beauchamp
Jeanine Delpech
French journalist, translator, novelist
Robert Galbraith
Joanne Rowling (J. K. Rowling )
Used for the publication of The Cuckoo's Calling
Robert Garioch
Robert Garioch Sutherland
20th-century Scots poet
Robert Jordan
James Oliver Rigney Jr.
Author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series
Robert Markham
Kingsley Amis
Robert Tressell
Robert Croker
Robert O. Saber
Milton K. Ozaki
Mid-20th-century journalist, author and detective novelist (Dressed to Kill (1954) and many others)
Robin A Hood
Ernest Aris
Robin Hobb
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
20th-century fantasy author; also published under the pen name Megan Lindholm
Robin Red
Ethel Hillyer Harris
American author, including negro dialect and pathetic sketches
Roger Fairbairn
John Dickson Carr
Romain Gary
Romain Kacew
Rosamond Smith
Joyce Carol Oates
Novels include Nemesis , Lives of the Twins , Soul Mate , Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon , The Barrens , Snake Eyes , You Can't Catch Me , Kindred Passions , and Double Delight
Rosemary Edghill
eluki bes shahar
American writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy
Ross Franklyn
Frank Hardy
Left-wing Australian writer best known for his novel Power Without Glory
Rushworth Armytage
Rosamund Marriott Watson
British poet and critic
Ruth Ogden
Fannie Ogden Ide
American children's book author
S – Z
Pen name
Real name
Details
S. S. Van Dine
Willard Huntington Wright
Art critic and author of Philo Vance mysteries
S. E. Hinton
Susan Eloise Hinton
Saint-John Perse
Alexis Saint-Léger Léger
Saki
Hector Hugh Munro
Early 20th-century British satirist
Sallie M. Bryan
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
19th-century American poet
Salomėja Nėris
Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė
Salonina
Francesca Anna Canfield
Early 19th-century American linguist, poet, translator
Samantha Chase
Eileen Buckholtz and Ruth Glick
20th-century American romance novelists
Samantha Spriggins
Helen Maud Merrill
19th-century American litterateur and poet
Sannois
Camille Saint-Saëns
Sans Souci
Nelly Nichol Marshall
19th-century American "southland" author
Sapper
H. C. McNeile
Sapphire
Ramona Lofton
21st-century African-American poet and author
Sadie Sensible
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
also "Julia", "Minnie May," "Frank Fisher," "Minister's Wife", "Rev. Peter Benson's Daughter"; American educator, poet
Saturn
Eva Best
American writer, newspaper editor, musical composer
Shahriar
Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar
Iranian poet, writing in Persian and Azerbaijani
Selene
Hester Dorsey Richardson
American author, genealogist, clubwoman
Shawn Haigins
Ashwin Sanghi
Indian writer of historical fiction thrillers including The Rozabal Line and Chanakya's Chant (Shawn Haigins is an anagram of Ashwin Sanghi)
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Schechtel
Novelist and television producer; created I Dream of Jeannie television series
Silence Dogood
Benjamin Franklin
Used this pen name to get his work published
Sister Nivedita
Margaret Elizabeth Noble
Sjón
Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson
Icelandic novelist, poet, lyricist
Somebody, M.D.C. &c. &c. &c.
John Neal
Keep Cool was published under this pseudonym. "M.D.C." stands for "Member of the Delphian Club "[ 9]
Sonya Koshkina
Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko
Ukrainian journalist, editor-in-chief
Seth
Gregory Gallant
20th-century Canadian cartoonist
Stan Lee
Stanley Martin Lieber
Comic book pioneer
Stanley Norris
Lurana W. Sheldon
American novelist, poet, lecturer, editor
Steele Rudd
Arthur Hoey Davis
Stefan Brockhoff
Dieter Cunz , Richard Plant , Oskar Seidlin
Stein Riverton
Sven Elvestad
Born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen
Stella
Elizabeth Jessup Eames
19th-century American writer
Stendhal
Marie-Henri Beyle
19th-century French writer
Stephen Bury
Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George
Student
William Sealy Gosset
Discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics
Sue Denim
Dav Pilkey
Writer and illustrator of the Captain Underpants children's book series, when author of the Dumb Bunnies books (Sue Denim is a play on the word pseudonym )
Sue Smith
Rosa Miller Avery
19th-century American abolitionist, reformer, suffragist, writers (also used men's names as pseudonyms)
Sujatha
S. Rangarajan
20th-century Indian writer, engineer/scientist
Sui Sin Far
Edith Maude Eaton
T. H. Lain
Philip Athans and Bruce Cordell
Collective pseudonym used by nine separate authors writing Wizards of the Coast 's Dungeons & Dragons novels
T. Kingfisher
Ursula Vernon
T. M. Maple
Jim Burke
Ted L. Nancy
Barry Marder and Bruce Baum
Authors of the Letters from a Nut series
Temple Oliver
Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith
American poet and romanticist
Tess Marlowe
Louise Titchener and Ruth Glick
20th-century American romance novelists
Theodosia
Anne Steele
English hymnwriter, essayist
Thoinot Arbeau
Jehan Tabourot
Tiger Lily
Lillie Devereux Blake
American suffragist, reformer, writer
Timothy Shy
D. B. Wyndham Lewis
20th-century British poet and author, collaborated with Ronald Searle on The Terror of St Trinian's
Tite Kubo
Noriaki Kubo
Manga artist of Bleach
Tom Tomorrow
Dan Perkins
20th-century editorial cartoonist
Toofie Lauder
Maria Elise Turner Lauder
19th-century Canadian teacher, linguist, author
Tori Carrington
Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni
American husband and wife romance novelists
Trebor Ohl
Cora Stuart Wheeler
19th-century American poet, author
Trevanian
Rodney William Whitaker
20th-century American spy novelist
Tristan Tzara
Sami Rosenstock
Tsugumi Ohba
unknown
Manga writer, author of Death Note and Bakuman
Tudor Arghezi
Ion N. Theodorescu
20th-century Romanian poet and children's author
Uanhenga Xitu
Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho
Umberto Saba
Umberto Poli
Uriah Fuller
Martin Gardner
Wrote Confessions of a Psychic
Väinö Stenberg
Algot Untola
20th-century Finnish author
Vazha
Luka Razikashvili
Vera Haij
Tove Jansson
Author of the picture book Sara och Pelle och näckens bläckfiskar
Véra Tsaritsyn
Gertrude Elizabeth Blood
Journalist, author, playwright, and editor
Vercors
Jean Bruller
Vernon Sullivan
Boris Vian
Víctor Català
Caterina Albert
Author of Solitud (Solitude) (1905)
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath
Poet and author of The Bell Jar
Vladimir Sirin
Vladimir Nabokov
20th-century novelist; used this name on early works
Viola
Fanny Murdaugh Downing
19th-century American author, poet
Viola
Laura M. Hawley Thurston
19th-century American poet, teacher
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet
18th-century French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher
Walter Ericson
Howard Fast
American novelist
W. A. C. Q.
Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston
19th-century American poet, novelist, hymnist, diarist
W. N. P. Barbellion
Bruce Frederick Cummings
20th-century diarist
Walter
Henry Spencer Ashbee
19th-century book collector, writer, bibliographer, and suspected author of My Secret Life , the sexual memoirs of a Victorian era gentleman
Wang Shiwei (王實味)
Wang Sidao (王思禱)
20th-century Chinese journalist and literary writer
William Lee
William S. Burroughs
American novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer
William Penn
Jeremiah Evarts
19th-century activist against Indian removal
Willibald Alexis
Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring
Willice Wharton
Eve Brodlique
British-born Canadian/American author, journalist
Winnie Woodbine
Esther Saville Allen
19th-century American author
Winnie Rover
Mary Catherine Chase
19th-century American Catholic nun and writer
Woody Allen
Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg)
American film director, writer, actor, and comedian
Y. L. E.
Mary Whitwell Hale
19th-century American teacher, hymnwriter
Yevgeny Petrov
Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev
Curtis Yorke
Susan Rowley Richmond Lee
Scottish writer, novelist
Yukio Mishima
Kimitake Hiraoka
20th-century Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright
Yukon Bill
Kate Simpson Hayes
Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet
Zeleta
Helen Field Comstock
American poet, philanthropist
Zena Clifton
Lillian Rozell Messenger
American poet
Zig
Eliza Archard Conner
American journalist, lecturer, feminist
See also
References
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