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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.
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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
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Then, text appears, responding to Lubelfeld’s question as if its writer is Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
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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
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Then, text appears, responding to Lubelfeld’s question as if its writer is Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pen name
Noun
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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Ludwig is the nom de plume of John Taylor, played by David Mitchell.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Musa is a pseudonym, used to protect the lawyer’s identity.—
Paul Tilsley,
FOXNews.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Madeleine Wickham, the author of the Shopaholic novels who wrote under the pseudonym Sophie Kinsella, died on December 10.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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