Pen Name

Pen Name

male
A pen name, nom de plume, or nom de guerre, is a pseudonym adopted by an author for various reasons. Authors may use a pen name to replace a long,...
Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour

female
Belle de Jour is the "nom de plume" of a person who claims to have been a London call girl or high class prostitute. Under this banner she...

Prurient

male
Prurient is the "nom de plume" of noise musician Dominick Fernow. He has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as American...

Helen Fouché Gaines

female
Helen Fouché Gaines was a member of the American Cryptogram Association and editor of the book "Cryptanalysis" (originally "Elementary C...
Luther Blissett

Luther Blissett

male
Luther Blissett is a multiple-use name, an "open reputation" informally adopted and shared by hundreds of artists and social activists all over...

Françoise Mallet-Joris

female, 79 years old
Françoise Mallet-Joris is the "nom de plume" of Françoise Lilar. She is the daughter of Suzanne Lilar, who was also a writer, and the sister of th...
Max Stirner

Max Stirner

male, deceased (1856)
Johann Kaspar Schmidt, better known as Max Stirner (the "nom de plume" he adopted from a schoolyard nickname he had acquired as a child because of...
Brian O'Nolan

Brian O'Nolan

male, deceased (1966)
Brian O'Nolan was a twentieth century Irish novelist and satirist, best known for his novels "An Béal Bocht", "At Swim-Two-Birds" and "The Third P...
Adnan Oktar

Adnan Oktar

male, 53 years old
Adnan Oktar nom de plume Harun Yahya (a.k.a Adnan Hoca) (born Ankara, 1956) is a figure in Turkish creationism, and a fervent advocate of...
Andre Norton

Andre Norton

female, deceased (2005)
Andre Alice Norton (February 17, 1912 - March 17, 2005), science fiction and fantasy author (with some works of historical fiction and contemporary...