Pen names. Aliases. Pseudonyms. What is similar about these three words? All of them lead to a sole definition. It doesn’t matter which of the three words a person prefers. They all have one identical meaning: a name used by an author to bury their identity in their writing. Various known writers, including J.K. Rowling (Joanne Rowling), George Orwell (Eric Blair), Clive Hamilton (C.S. Lewis), and numerous others, have used pen names. Authors use pseudonyms for multiple reasons. For example, pseudonyms
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” wrote William Shakespeare in his play, Romeo and Juliet. Delving into this concept, if names don’t affect the quality of their works, why would authors use pseudonyms instead of their real names? There are several cases, from Charlotte Brontë to Stephen King, where authors chose a pen name for their own reasons. Some needed a fake name to compensate for their social status, some to protect their integrity, or just
Why do authors use pen names? What is bad about using pen names? Do fake names help to keep your information and privacy protected? These questions will be answered in this paper. Some authors use pen names because they don’t want to embarrass family members with their writing. (Source #1) Eric Blair used the fake name George Orwell so he wouldn’t embarrass his family with his early work. Some people use pen names because they have a criminal record and don’t want to be seen as a bad person.
Pen names help author and writers a lot with how famous they want to be and what they want to do in their writing careers. They help make an author or writer more successful and allows them to do what they want in their writing careers. Joanne Rowling used this and this will show how it helped her writing career. Also, Stephen King used pen names allowing him to write about whatever, and however much he wanted to write. A lot of authors and writers use pen names. A pen name: is an assumed name
Pen names are very useful to authors, and all authors that use pen names have pretty valid reasons to use them in a way to benefit themselves in their career. Many authors use pen names as a security for themselves to avoid the hate mail and the interference with fans coming into their personal lives. Pen names also allow authors to have freedom when they are writing so no one knows who they really are, this lets the authors let go of the stress and fear of being judged and criticized by family
Authors and pine names what is it that makes them do this and what about them is so interesting? The use of pen names for authors has been used for hundreds of years. Why have they been used for hundreds of years exactly, they used them to keep their lives secret. Authors also used them to keep their families safe. But how did pin names start is the big question people wonder. The use of pen names has been used for hundreds by authors to keep their lives secret, their families safe, and to send
Pen names are something the author use in the past and present day. Author like Stephen king, Erin Blair, and Susan Eloise Hinton use pen names. The reason why they use pen name was because they could be worried on something or so they can sell copies of books to become famous. But for J.K. Rowling she uses this for something else. The reason why is because back then woman’s were not allowed to publish books and sell them. With that said are pen names a good thing? Let’s start on what woman’s
Pen names have been used by authors throughout history for many reasons. Some reasons of which are, to attract a certain audience, to give women the only opportunity that they need, and to have the flexibility to write with anonymity. Some very famous pen names used from “What’s in a Name” by E. Bennet are, Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte), J. K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith (Joanne Rowling), Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgeson), and Silence Dogood (Benjamin Franklin). To attract to a certain audience people
Pen-names have been used throughout history because they allow the writer to hide their identity, give women the opportunity to be published more frequently, and finally let a writer separate their writing selves from their true selves. Pen-names are when an author of a book or novel uses a fake name that isn’t theirs, and uses that name to get published on the book or novel. Pen-names give the writer more freedom in certain ways to be more creative, that has why they have been so popular throughout
online use a pseudonym or “pen name.” In the book The Gospel According to Larry, Josh Swensen unhesitantly decided to start an online blog where he wrote about controversial topics and used the name Larry to stay anonymous. Looking at literature other than online, Samuel Clemens used pen names in most of the books he wrote; his most famous pen name being Mark Twain. Josh Swensen and Samuel Clemens were alike and divergent in many ways considering that they both used a pen name and avoided having their