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Samuel L. Clemens is better known by his pen name “Mark Twain.”
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Despite the nearly identical nature of her pen name and the name of the conversion therapist, the author said similarities between the two were purely coincidental.
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Quispe López, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
An original manuscript and cover sketch by Theodor Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, will be published by Random House Children’s Books next year.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge (a pen name for the anonymous author), Demon Slayer debuted in 2016 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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Quispe López, Them., 30 Oct. 2025
An original manuscript and cover sketch by Theodor Geisel, better known by his pen name Dr. Seuss, will be published by Random House Children’s Books next year.
—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 29 Oct. 2025
Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge (a pen name for the anonymous author), Demon Slayer debuted in 2016 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Pen name.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pen%20name. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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