One of the jobs of a writer is to construct character, with carefully chosen names and personalities and a good author will show the journey that character goes on throughout the course of the story.
Inventing identities is a key part of any writer’s remit, but what if one of the identities they have constructed is their own? Many well-known writers use pen names to disguise their work, or if they are writing different genre and they want to keep it separate for what they are most famous for. For example Harry Potter creator JK Rowling uses the name Robert Galbraith for her series of detective novels.
However, there are a number of authors whose pseudonym is the name that has made them famous. Here are a few unfamiliar names of famous authors you may not know.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The former journalist and steamboat worker adopted the name Mark Twain and would go on to make his name penning the novels Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Eric Arthur Blair
This man’s work has seen a resurgence in recent years to the volatile political climate. Best known or social and political cautionary tales 1984 and Animal Farm, Blair is better known as George Orwell.
Mary Anne Evans
Evans wrote mainly light-hearted and romantic novels in Victorian England, but when she decided she wanted to tackle more weighty issues, she decided to change names – and gender – and become George Eliot. Under that name, she would go on to right Middlemarch and Silas Marner.
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