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's 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.

List

Pen name	Real name	Details
A. C. Q. W. (and W. A. C. Q.)	Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy Waterston	19th-century American writer
A. H. Tammsaare	Anton Hansen	20th-century Estonian writer
A. J. Finn	Daniel Mallory	Author of The Woman in the Window
A Lady	Hannah Maynard Pickard	19th-century American novelist
A.A. Fair	Erle Stanley Gardner	One of several that he used
Aapeli	Simo Puupponen	20th-century Finnish writer and chatty articler
Aaron Wolfe	Dean Koontz
Abigail Van Buren	Pauline Phillips and then Jeanne 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
Adunis	Ali Ahmad Said Esber	Syrian poet, essayist and translator
Æ	George William Russell	Irish poet and theosophist (1867 - 1935)
Aiguillette	Matilda Marian Pullan	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
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	pen name for group of Australian writers who have been writing novels collaboratively since 2010.
Amanda Cross	Carolyn Gold Heilbrun	20th-century American mystery writer
Amanda Quick	Jayne Ann Krentz
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 MacDonald	William Luther Pierce
Ann Landers	Ruth Crowley and then Eppie 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 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
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"[1]
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 Julia	Julia Colman	19th-century American temperance educator, activist, editor, writer
Aunt Marjorie	Margaret Elizabeth Sangster	19th-century American poet, author, editor
Aunt Nabby	Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell	19th-century American novelist, short-story writer
Aunt Philury	Helen M. Winslow	American editor, author, publisher, journalist
Aunt Stomly	Emeline S. Burlingame	American editor and evangelist
Ayn Rand	Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum	20th-century fiction writer and creator of the philosophy Objectivism
Azorín	José Martínez Ruiz
B. Traven	unknown	20th-century novelist, aka Bruno Traven
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	21st-century British author who writes 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
B. E. E.	Emma Elizabeth Brown	19t-century American writer, artist
B. F. Cocker	Benjamin Franklin
bell hooks	Gloria Jean Watkins
Belle Bremer	Martina Swafford	American poet
Benevolus	Benjamin Franklin
Berrintho	Robert Roberthin	17th-century German poet
Betsey Bancker	Mary E. C. Bancker	19th-century American author
Bharathidasan	Kanagasabai Subburathnam	20th-century Tamil poet
Blaise Cendrars	Frédéric Louis Sauser
Bob Hart	Al Trace
Boris Akunin	Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili
Boz	Charles Dickens	19th-century British novelist
Boz	Raymond "Boz" Burrell
Branislav Nušić	Alkibijad Nuša
Brian Coffey	Dean Koontz
Brynjolf Bjarme	Henrik Ibsen
Busy Body	Benjamin Franklin
C. S. Forester	Cecil Smith	20th-century writer of the Captain Horatio Hornblower novels, The African Queen, and other novels
Caelia Shortface	Benjamin Franklin
Cantinflas	Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes
Caris Sima	Clara Mountcastle	Canadian author
Carr Dickson	John Dickson Carr	20th-century author of detective stories
Carter Dickson	John Dickson Carr	20th-century author of detective stories
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 Moulton	William Moulton Marston	Creator of Wonder Woman comic book character
Charlotte Jay	Geraldine Halls
Cherry Wilder	Cherry Barbara Grimm
Cherubina de Gabriak	Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva
Christian Reid	Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan	American author of The Land of the Sky
Christopher Pike	Kevin Christopher McFadden	Prolific author of young-adult horror and sci-fi novels
Citizen	Sarah Carmichael Harrell	American educator, temperance reformer, writer
Clark McMeekin	Dorothy Clark and Isabel McMeekin	Wrote historical novels
Clem Watts	Al Trace
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
Currer Bell	Charlotte Brontë
Curzio Malaparte	Kurt Erich Suckert
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
Dazai Osamu	Shuji Tsushima
Deanna Dwyer	Dean Koontz
Diablo Cody	Brook Busey	Screenwriter
Diedrich Knickerbocker	Washington Irving	Early 19th-century U.S. writer
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
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
E. Cavazza; Elisabeth Pullen	Elisabeth Cavazza	American author, journalist, music critic
E. L. James	Erika Leonard, born Erika Mitchell	Author of Fifty Shades of Grey
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
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
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
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
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
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	An economist/lawyer team write humorous banking mysteries with global scope
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
Euphrosyne	Julia Nyberg
E. V. Cunningham	Howard Fast	American novelist
Filia Ecclesia	Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp	British-born American educator, author
Flann O'Brien	Brian O'Nolan
Floyd Bentley	Sarah Dyer Hobart	American poet, author
Ford Madox Ford	Ford Hermann Hueffer	Early 20th-century English novelist and poet
Francis Bennett	Edwin Keppel Bennett
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
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
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
Grace Greenwood	Sara Jane Lippincott	American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, newspaper founder
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
H.D.	Hilda Doolittle	20th-century American imagist poet, novelist and memoirist
H.E. Sayeh	Hushang Ebtehaj	20th-century Iranian poet (هوشنگ ابتهاج)
H.N. Turtletaub	Harry Turtledove
H.T.C.	Helen Taggart Clark	American journalist, poet
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 Gordon	Clara M. Brinkerhoff	19th-century British soprano and romance novelist
Henriett Seth F.	Fajcsák Henrietta
Henriette Hardenberg	Margarete Rosenberg
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
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
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
Italo Svevo	Aron Ettore Schmitz
Iyanla Vanzant	Rhonda Eva Harris	author, spiritual teacher, and television personality.
J. D. Robb	Nora Roberts
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
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[2]
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[3] to the name of the Slovenian right-wing politician
Jay Livingston	Jacob Harold Levison
Jean Kincaid	Estelle M. H. Merrill	American journalist, editor
Jean Paul	Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Jean Plaidy	Eleanor Hibbert
Jean Ray	Raymundus Joannes de Kremer
Jemyma	Marietta Holley	American humorist
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
John Christopher	Samuel Youd
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 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, journalis6
Juhani Tervapää	Hella Wuolijoki	20th-century Estonian-born Finnish writer
Julia Quinn	Julia Pottinger
Julien Gordon	Julia Cruger	American novelist
K. Hardesh	Clement Greenberg	20th-century American art critic
K. R. Dwyer	Dean Koontz
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. H. S.	Lucinda Hinsdale Stone	19th-century American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, philanthropist
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
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
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, a supposedly authentic autobiography of a monk born in Tibet, was unmasked as a British plumber who had 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
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. Barnard Eldershaw	Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw
Maarten Maartens	Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz
Mabel Percy	Mary R. P. Hatch	19th-century American writer
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
Margaret Allston	Anna Farquhar Bergengren	American writer, editor
Margaret Vandegrift	Margaret Thomson Janvier	American poet and children's book writer
Marguerite	Jessie Margaret King	19th-century Scottish essayist, journalist, poet
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
Martha Careful	Benjamin Franklin
Marton Taiga	Martti Löfberg	20th-century Finnish pulp writer, who also used several other pseudonyms
Mary Hartwell	Mary Hartwell Catherwood	19th century American writer
Mary Westmacott	Agatha Christie	20th-century British writer
Matthew Bramble	Andrew Macdonald	Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright
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
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
Minnie C. Ballard	Mary Canfield Ballard	19th-century American poet, hymnwriter
Minnie Mary Lee	Julia A. A. Wood	19th-century American author
Miss Manners	Judith Martin	Author, columnist, and etiquette authority
Mizpah	Mildred Amanda Baker Bonham	19th-century American traveler and journalist
Molière	Jean Baptiste Poquelin	17th-century French theatre writer, director and actor, and writer of comic satire
Mr. Blackwell	Richard Sylvan Selzer	Fashion critic, journalist, creator of annual "Ten Worst Dressed Women List". Also used the alias "Richard Blackwell".
Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller	Mittie Frances Clarke Point	American dime-novelist
Mrs. Alfred Barnard	Frances Catherine Barnard	19th-century English writer, poet, playwright
Mrs. Clarissa Packard	Caroline Howard Gilman	19th-century American author
Mrs. E. Burke Collins	Emma Augusta Sharkey	19th-century American dime novelist
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. 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
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	C19th author of The Chase, The Road, and The Turf (on Foxhunting, Coaching and Racing respectively). A writer of high quality.
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
Novalis	Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg
O. Henry	William Sydney Porter	American author of short stories and novels
Ogdred Weary	Edward Gorey
Olive Thorne	Harriet Mann Miller	American author, naturalist, ornithologist
Onoto Watanna	Winnifred Eaton	Canadian author
Ouida	Marie Louise de la Ramée	19th-century English novelist
Owen West	Dean Koontz
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
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 Loti	Louis Marie Julien Viaud
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
Polly Baker	Benjamin Franklin
Premchand	Dhanpat Rai Srivastav	An Indian author, notable for his modern Hindustani literature
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	20th-century science fiction author
Rachel Bach	Rachel Aaron	American science fiction author
Refugitta	Constance Cary Harrison	American writer
Rehmat Farrukhabadi	Muhammad Rehmatullah Qureshi	Author and Muslim scholar
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 Almanac
Richard Stark	Donald E. Westlake	Westlake used many other pen names as well.
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
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. S. Van Dine	Willard Huntington Wright	Art critic and author of Philo Vance mysteries
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 Spriggins	Helen Maud Merrill	19th-century American litterateur and poet
Sannois	Camille Saint-Saëns
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
Shahriar	Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar	Iranian poet, writing in Persian and Azerbaijani
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 to get his work published
Sister Nivedita	Margaret Elizabeth Noble
Sjón	Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson	Icelandic novelist, poet, lyricist
Stan Lee	Stanley Martin Lieber	Comic book pioneer
Steele Rudd	Arthur Hoey Davis
Stefan Brockhoff	Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin
Stein Riverton	Sven Elvestad	Born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen
Stendhal	Marie-Henri Beyle	19th-century French writer
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 parody of the word pseudonym)
Sue Smith	Rosa Miller Avery	19th-century American abolitionist, reformer, suffragist, writers (also used men's names as pseudonyms)
Sujatha	Sujatha Rangarajan	Tamil writer, engineer/scientist
Sui Sin Far	Edith Maude Eaton
T. H. Lain	Philip Athans and Bruce Cordell	A collective pseudonym used by nine separate authors writing Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons novels
T. M. Maple	Jim Burke
Ted L. Nancy	Barry Marder and Bruce Baum	Authors of the Letters from a Nut series
Theo LeSieg	Theo Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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
Toegye	Yi Hwang	16th-century Korean Confucian scholar
Tom Tomorrow	Dan Perkins	20th-century editorial cartoonist
Tori Carrington	Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni	American husband and wife romance novelists
Trevanian	Rodney William Whitaker	20th-century American spy novelist
Tristan Tzara	Sami Rosenstock
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	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. 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
Winnie Woodbine	Esther Saville Allen	19th-century American author
Winnie Rover	Mary Catherine Chase	19th-century American Catholic nun and writer
Wiz Khalifa	Cameron Jibril Thomaz	African American rap artist
Woody Allen	Allen Stewart Konigsberg
Y. L. E.	Mary Whitwell Hale	19th-century American teacher, hymnwriter
Yevgeny Petrov	Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev
Yukio Mishima	Kimitake Hiraoka	20th-century Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright
Yulgok	Yi I	16th-century Korean Confucian scholar
Zena Clifton	Lillian Rozell Messenger	American poet
Zig	Eliza Archard Conner	American journalist, lecturer, feminist

See also

• List of pseudonyms
• List of pseudonyms of angling authors
• List of people who adopted matrilineal surnames
• List of works published under a pseudonym

References

1. "A gem from the Man Without a Spleen". The Guardian. London.
2. Arthur B., Evans; et al., eds. (2010). The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. p. 516. ISBN 9780819569554.
3. Webpage about the official name change "Archived copy". Archived from the original on August 17, 2015. Retrieved 2012-07-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)