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Nom de Plume: permission to write with abandon?
by, Jill Swenson
December 23, 2014

French for ‘pen name,’ a nom de plume is a fictitious name under which an author publishes. Mark Twain was the nom de plume of Samuel Clemens. George Eliot sounded more serious than Mary Ann Evans.  Theodore Geisel was known as Dr. Seuss. In 1899 William Sydney Porter took the name O. Henry so editors might never know the stories were submitted by a convicted… [Read More]

Filed Under: anonymity, Carmela Ciuaru, George Eliot, George Orwell, J.K. Rowling, Nom de Plume, pseudonym, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath
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