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100 Pen Names and the Authors Behind Them

September 15, 2026

100 Pen Names and the Authors Behind Them

No. Item Definition
1. Acton Bell Used by Anne Brontë.
2. Amanda Cross Used by Carolyn Gold Heilbrun.
3. Anatole France Used by Jacques Anatole François Thibault.
4. Andre Norton Used by Alice Mary Norton.
5. Anthony Berkeley Used by Anthony Berkeley Cox.
6. Anthony Burgess Used by John Anthony Burgess Wilson.
7. Ayn Rand Used by Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum.
8. Ba Jin Used by Li Yaotang.
9. Banjo Paterson Used by Andrew Barton Paterson.
10. Barbara Vine Used by Ruth Rendell.
11. Blaise Cendrars Used by Frédéric-Louis Sauser.
12. Boris Akunin Used by Grigori Chkhartishvili.
13. Boz Used by Charles Dickens.
14. Carter Dickson Used by John Dickson Carr.
15. Charles Todd Shared by Caroline and Charles Todd.
16. Christianna Brand Used by Mary Christianna Milne.
17. Christopher Pike Used by Kevin Christopher McFadden.
18. Cordwainer Smith Used by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger.
19. Currer Bell Used by Charlotte Brontë.
20. Daniil Kharms Used by Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev.
21. Dr. Seuss Used by Theodor Seuss Geisel.
22. E. L. James Used by Erika Mitchell.
23. Ed McBain Used by Salvatore Lombino, later named Evan Hunter.
24. Edmund Crispin Used by Robert Bruce Montgomery.
25. Elia Used by Charles Lamb.
26. Elizabeth Peters Used by Barbara Mertz.
27. Ellery Queen Shared by Daniel Nathan and Emanuel Benjamin Lepofsky.
28. Ellis Bell Used by Emily Brontë.
29. Ellis Peters Used by Edith Pargeter.
30. Émile Ajar Used by Romain Gary.
31. Fernán Caballero Used by Cecilia Böhl de Faber.
32. Francis Iles Used by Anthony Berkeley Cox.
33. Gabriela Mistral Used by Lucila Godoy Alcayaga.
34. George Eliot Used by Mary Ann Evans.
35. George Orwell Used by Eric Arthur Blair.
36. George Sand Used by Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin.
37. Grant Naylor Shared by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor.
38. Guillaume Apollinaire Used by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki.
39. Henry Handel Richardson Used by Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson.
40. Ignazio Silone Used by Secondino Tranquilli.
41. Ilona Andrews Shared by Ilona and Andrew Gordon.
42. Isak Dinesen Used by Karen Blixen.
43. Italo Svevo Used by Aron Ettore Schmitz.
44. J. D. Robb Used by Eleanor Marie Robertson.
45. James Herriot Used by James Alfred Wight.
46. James Tiptree Jr. Used by Alice Bradley Sheldon.
47. Jean Paul Used by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter.
48. Jean Plaidy Used by Eleanor Alice Burford.
49. John le Carré Used by David John Moore Cornwell.
50. John Wyndham Used by John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris.
51. Joseph Conrad Used by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski.
52. Josephine Tey Used by Elizabeth MacKintosh.
53. Korney Chukovsky Used by Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov.
54. Lars Kepler Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril’s shared pseudonym.
55. Lemony Snicket Used by Daniel Handler.
56. Leslie Charteris Used by Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin.
57. Lewis Carroll Used by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
58. Lewis Padgett Shared by Henry Kuttner and Catherine Lucille Moore.
59. Lu Xun Used by Zhou Shuren.
60. Madeleine Brent Used by Peter O’Donnell.
61. Mark Twain Used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens.
62. Mary Westmacott Used by Agatha Christie.
63. Michael Innes Used by John Innes Mackintosh Stewart.
64. Molière Used by Jean-Baptiste Poquelin.
65. Murray Leinster Used by William Fitzgerald Jenkins.
66. Nevil Shute Used by Nevil Shute Norway.
67. Nicci French Shared by Nicci Gerrard and Sean French.
68. Nicholas Blake Used by Cecil Day-Lewis.
69. Nino Culotta Used by John Patrick O’Grady.
70. Nora Roberts Used by Eleanor Marie Robertson.
71. Novalis Used by Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg.
72. O. Henry Used by William Sydney Porter.
73. P. J. Tracy Shared by Patricia Lambrecht and Traci Lambrecht.
74. P. L. Travers Used by Helen Lyndon Goff.
75. Pablo Neruda Used by Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto.
76. Paul Éluard Used by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel.
77. Pierre Loti Used by Julien Viaud.
78. Publius Shared by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay.
79. Q Used by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
80. Richard Bachman Used by Stephen King.
81. Richard Saunders Used by Benjamin Franklin.
82. Richard Stark Used by Donald E. Westlake.
83. Robert Galbraith Used by Joanne Rowling.
84. Romain Gary Used by Roman Kacew.
85. Ross Macdonald Used by Kenneth Millar.
86. S. S. Van Dine Used by Willard Huntington Wright.
87. Saint-John Perse Used by Alexis Leger.
88. Saki Used by Hector Hugh Munro.
89. Sapper Used by Herman Cyril McNeile.
90. Sax Rohmer Used by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward.
91. Silence Dogood Used by Benjamin Franklin.
92. Steele Rudd Used by Arthur Hoey Davis.
93. Stendhal Used by Marie-Henri Beyle.
94. Teffi Used by Nadezhda Alexandrovna Lokhvitskaya.
95. Tristan Bernard Used by Paul Bernard.
96. Tristan Tzara Used by Samuel Rosenstock.
97. Victoria Holt Used by Eleanor Alice Burford.
98. Vladimir Sirin Used by Vladimir Nabokov.
99. Voltaire Used by François-Marie Arouet.
100. Yukio Mishima Used by Kimitake Hiraoka.

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