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    Pseudonymity is the practice of creating new works in the name of a famous deceased author that was widespread in both Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. It is the production of unknown Christians who adopted the Jewish literary convention of writing under an assumed identity. Some of these works have been accepted into the cannon. Someone using the pseudonym of another to write a letter was a common practice in Hellenistic Judaism and early Christianity. Today it would be considered intellectual

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    According to Harris (2015), pseudonymity, is the practice of publishing new work in the name of either a famous or a deceased author. In so doing, such a name would impart some form of authority to the writing. For example in the Old Testament, the book of Daniel is considered pseudonymous, while in the New Testament 2nd Peter and Jude are also considered pseudonymous. Followers of Paul were also allowed to use his name in any works that they published. Among Hellenistic-Jewish and early Christian writers

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    Names are sometimes taken so much more seriously than they should be. One distinct case would be the world of writing. We can only imagine the disappointment of an author whose book was not published because it was written by a woman, or the pressure a famous writer must face when starts on a new book, knowing that his or her fans will have high expectations. So, in an attempt to destroy yet another hardship in the world of writing, an author would create a pen name. Just one such pseudonym can give

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    where pen names are important as they allow authors to publish their book without revealing their real identity to the public. This allows authors to not worry about the books they publish affecting their personal life. Pen names can be used as an alias for authors who want to be published to a certain audience but think they will not buy the book just because of the author, that is why some authors try and make it seem like they are a different person. To deduce from the article ”Pen Names In Literature”

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    Pen names change peoples lives. Pen Names are something that authors used to use when writing their stories, poems, or newspaper. People have dreams of becoming writers, but when they go to publish it they either get, “you’re a guy and you aren’t supposed to write or you’re a women, you are supposed to stay at home.” Well the people didn’t care what they had to do to get published, so they used pen names. Pen names helped both men and women today and in the Victoria era, and it helped them stay anonymous

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    The name of a famous author instantly pops into the heads of many people upon the mention of a well-known quote or a beloved character that is found within one of their best-selling stories. However, the names on the binding of these top-selling books are not always the names granted to the author at birth. Many writers use pen names, fake names in which authors create stories under, in the place of their birth names. Pen names allow more career success in a variety of different ways, opening up

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    A pen name is a fake name, that is used to replace your real name in a book short story or poem. Pen names can be used to convey an idea, protect the writer’s identity or represent something significant to the story. They can also be the only way someone can get their work published. People such as Benjamin Franklin who in Source One, What’s in a Name, paragraph 2 “when a local newspaper refused him publication sixteen-year-old Benjamin Franklin started writing letters to the editor under the persona

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    Cameron Donald Candide Book Critique Candide was written by Voltaire, the pen name of the Frenchman, François-Marie Arouet, and was first published by Gabriel Cramer in Geneva during early 1759 . This book was assigned by our teacher because it expresses the beliefs of Voltaire who was a prominent thinker during the Enlightenment Age in Europe. Such thinkers held various philosophical beliefs which were a major cause of social change at the time. This ties in perfectly with our class’s current unit

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    Pen names are false names used by people to make others believe they are someone else (for example, Lemony Snicket). All types of authors use pen names, such as poets or novelists. Throughout history and through the eras, authors- famous or not- have used these pen names to disguise themselves as someone else. These disguises are brought on by many reasons. Some including- but not limited to-: in order to get published, to appeal to the audience, to avoid the social expectations of the time period

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    Romona Lofton, better know by her pen name Sapphire, published mortifyingly accurate stories of childhood sexual abuse and trauma. Her 1996 novel Push tells the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, an illiterate black street girl, sixteen years old and pregnant with her father’s second child. Lofton was the victim of childhood sexual assault. In 2010 she told the London Evening Standard that her father had molested her at age 8. Her mother abandoned their family five years later. Lofton experienced

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