Samuel L. Clemens is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain.”
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Sister-in-law has dumped her kids.—Haben Kelati, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024 Elly Conway is a pen name for Matthew Vaughn and Jason Fuchs, right?—Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 3 Feb. 2024 While the singer did not pen the novel the movie is based on under a pen name, as many fans have theorized online, her Scottish Fold cats did impact Vaughn’s creative choices.—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024 Most were rejected, but a few were published, under a pen name.—Clay Risen, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024 Rowling most recently published The Ink Black Heart under her pen name, Robert Galbraith, last year.—Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 19 Oct. 2023 This is the reason that a lot of us choose to write under pen names.—Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023 Volume One includes stories by Fredric Brown, Dorothy B. Hughes and Richard Stark (a pen name for Donald Westlake).—Tom Nolan, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2023 Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher (who is just Ursula Vernon under a pen name) won best novel; Samantha Mills’ Rabbit Test won best short story; The Expanse and Everything Everywhere All At Once and Dune and Andor are all among the nominees and winners.—David Pierce, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2023
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