Can anyone tell me five authors who wrote under a pseudonym? (Fake name)?

Question

I wann know why

Answer 1

Mark Twain
O. Henry
Dr. Seuss

There's lots of others, but I can't think of them.

Answer 2

Mark Twain
George Eliot
Isak Dineson (I think I spelled that right...wrote Out of Africa...is actually a woman)
O'Henry
Lewis Carol

and Stephen King who wrote "The Running Man" under the name Richard Bauchman

As to the why...

usually it either because their own name is really horrible, they're a woman (a long time ago female authors were not well respected or taken as "serious" writers) or if they are an established author in a particular genre (like in the case of Stephen King) it's difficult to write outside of that genre without some backlash from your core readership, so you write "outside" novels under a pseudonym

Answer 3

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Anne Bronte wrote under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, because in their society readers and publishers were prejudiced against women writers

Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot) and Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) used pen names for the same reason as the Bronte sisters.

Anne Rice uses pseudonyms for her adult and erotic fiction that stands independent of her Vampire Chronicles

Charles Dodgson wrote his children's novels under the name Lewis Carroll because he was a well-known mathematician and didn't want either his scientific work or his writing to be colored by each other

Answer 4

Historically women writing non-traditional books have written under a man's name (George Eliot) so they would be taken more seriously. Even J. K. Rowling bowed to the necessity. Her publisher suggested she use her initials so boys would read her books.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) originally thought of his writing as a lark. His non-serious stuff went under Twain.

Lewis Carroll was a very serious mathematician named Samuel Dobson. Dobson didn't want folks knowing he wrote children's stories as well as serious mathematical papers. It annoyed him till his dying day that his Alice books outshone everything else he ever wrote.

Today most authors who use pennames do it for two reasons (1) Their real name is either hard to spell, too close to another author's name, or far down in the alphabet, or (2) they write other types of books, too, and don't want to confuse their readers.

A good example of the second case is Victoria Holt/Jean Plaidy. The Jean Plaidy books were all historical fiction about royal personages. Very factual. The Victoria Holt books were romance and romantic suspense.

I've also developed a split personality with my writing. My science fiction and historical books are under my real name (Ellen Anthony). My social commentary and activist writings are under a strong, no nonsense male name. And I have a third name for stuff I don't want to come back and haunt me later.

Answer 5

Mark Twain was really Samuel Clemens

George Orwell was Eric Blair

George Sand was Aurore Dudevant

George Eliot was Mary Anne Evans

Rebecca West was Cecily Isabel Fairfield

Answer 6

This might desire to be a trick question. If an author writes under a pseudonym or pseudonyms and not in any respect has his/her authentic identity printed, then how interior the international might all of us be attentive to approximately it? it would nevertheless be a secret.

Answer 7

the hardy boys series was actually written by agroup of many authors... thts another type of pseudonym...

the tintin comics series author "herge" was a pen name too!

i thnk the nancy drew series was a pseudonym too...

then ofc. mark twain...

i cant thnk of a 5th one!

:)

as to the "why" part... its mostly to maintain their identity a secret... so that they can mingle amongst commoners and study their behaviour, mannerisms and reflect it in their literary works...
in fact, Sir Stephen Hawking pretended to be some teen in a online discussion forum to see how ppl. viewed some particular theory pertainin to universe... then when he declared his findings, ppl. were shocked! :O (come on! stephen hawkings chattin with u casually and u think he's actually a teen!)... OMG! this happened rather recently, so u can probably serach the internet and find out more abt. this if u r interested!

Answer 8

Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte

Answer 9

Lewis Carrol
George Eliot
Mark Twain
George Orwell
John le Carré

Answer 10

Two pseudonyms come to mind immediately: George Sand and Georg Eliot. Google them to find the women behind these names.

Answer 11

I can only remember one offhand.
Pongo Jim Mayo and later as Jim Mayo was the pseudonym for Louis L'Amour.