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Who are some well-known authors with pseudonyms?

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For a litany of reasons – some personal, some driven by brutal societal biases –  authors have long tossed their birth names for noms de plume. Some of these pseudonyms have been adopted for entire writing careers, others for an unexpected subset of books.

For how many of the following writers – some alive, some passed – can you generate their more famous pen names?

Do you know these authors’ pen names?
• Alice Bradley Sheldon
• Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
• Gloria Jean Watkins
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Chloe Ardelia Wofford
• Daniel Handler
• David John Moore Cornwell
• Eric Arthur Blair
• François-Marie Arouet
• Helen Lyndon Goff  ☂️
• Howard Allen Frances O’Brien
• James Alfred Wight
• Jean Baptiste Poquelin
• Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
• Julia Pottinger
• Marguerite Annie Johnson
• Mary Ann Evans
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens
• Stanley Martin Lieber
• Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto
• Theodor Geisel
• Violet Paget

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Author Pen Names
• Alice Bradley Sheldon = James Tiptree Jr.
• Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin = George Sand
• Gloria Jean Watkins = bell hooks
• Charles Lutwidge Dodgson = Lewis Carroll
• Chloe Ardelia Wofford = Toni Morrison
• Daniel Handler = Lemony Snicket
• David John Moore Cornwell = John le Carré
• Eric Arthur Blair = George Orwell
• François-Marie Arouet = Voltaire
• Helen Lyndon Goff = P.L. Travers
• Howard Allen Frances O’Brien = Anne Rice
• James Alfred Wight = James Herriot
• Jean Baptiste Poquelin = Molière
• Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski = Joseph Conrad
• Julia Pottinger = Julia Quinn
• Marguerite Annie Johnson = Maya Angelou
• Mary Ann Evans = George Eliot
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens = Mark Twain
• Stanley Martin Lieber = Stan Lee
• Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto = Pablo Neruda
• Theodor Geisel = Dr. Seuss (Seuss is his middle name)
• Violet Paget = Vernon Lee

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