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    In literature, many authors use pen names they are like their secret identity. Authors can use pen names to be able to publish more work. They use pen names so they can speak freely without being criticized or someone they know looking at them differently. Also, Women writers use pen names so they won't be discriminated and people will take them seriously. Therefore, authors chose pen names for many reasons. "King wanted to write under the pen name Bachman so that he would be able to publish more

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    Many times authors use pen names to disguise who they are so that they can hide There true self so as stated in source 1. Susan Eloise hinton quotes “that it help her separate her writer self from her true self, and it takes a persona as rich as a character in her novels.” In addition another reason why authors use pen names is authors also tend to feel that there is a biased opinion from there readers as to whether or not there a male Or female. Authors think that they would be made fun if they

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    Some authors use pen names instead of their real names. Why is that so? Some authors use it because of discrimination, to get a fresh new start, or just to publish more books. Give me a second to inform you all about this topic To begin with, authors use pen names so they won’t have to face discrimination of gender. In the olden times, publishers didn’t take women seriously when they wrote a book or any piece of literature. Robert Southey wrote in a letter to his friend, Charlotte Bronte, that”:

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    Many authors throughout history have used pen names, a fiction name used to write literature under, for several reasons personal to themselves. Whether it be to overcome discrimination, or to simply gain freedom, authors around the world, from all times, use pseudonyms in their careers. Writers, no matter how famous, use fake names quite commonly. For example, author Eric Blair, more popularly known as George Orwell, author of timeless classics such as “Animal Farm” and “Nineteen Eighty-four,”

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    myself heartbroken and shortly after that I found myself writing again for the first time in years. I used to love writing, and I even wanted to be a novelist when I was younger, but somewhere down the road I decided that was too unrealistic and put the pen down. Picking it up again a short while ago felt natural, and it almost felt as if those years between never happened. As I was writing I found myself understanding what I was feeling. This is where Noё comes in. Noё makes the claim that “all of the

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    Melissa Izzo Professor Rachel Braaten HUM 2235 24 October 2014 Mark Twain Mark Twain is the pen name used by American writer Samuel Langhorn Clemens. Twain is an iconic American author and humorist who used both his personal struggles and gifts as a writer, to impact society from the nineteenth century into the present. He came from a large family and was born in Florida, Missouri, and lived from 1835 to 1910. Two of Mark Twain’s works which become a staple of his career were The Adventures of Tom

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    instruments to be specific (but maybe next year I’ll get really into forks and spoons). Between the two of these, though, my first love was pen collecting. As a child, I remember hearing my father tell stories about how, when he was younger, he used to send letters to car companies asking for posters and pins, at one point even receiving a free stamp in the mail with his name. To this day, he still uses that stamp on official documents. He inspired then 8-year-old Sanjay to write a letter to Nintendo, asking

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    Many writers such as Joanne Rowling and C. S. Lewis used pen names to excel in the world of literature. Pen names are like aliases and pseudonyms; they give writers another identity and a fresh start when writing a book that is different from their usual genre. An author’s use of pen names can introduce them to an extended amount of opportunities. For instance, pen names allow women to publish books by concealing their identity. In early times women were not allowed to publish books because of

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    by Brian Selznick Nick Allen is a child full of ideas who decides to replace the word “pen” with the word “frindle” after his teacher has told him that words are formed by the people making them, therefore he must try it out for himself and gets six of his friends to commit to using the word “frindle” instead of pen. Nick and his friends made a big show about using the new word every time they needed to say pen, however Mrs. Granger, the fifth grade, language arts teacher was not in favor of the use

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    Charles Dodgson who was a mathematician. So, why would someone really want to use a pen name? Well to begin, ever heard of Benjamin Franklin? At 16 years old a local newspaper wouldn’t publish for him, so he started writing letters as a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. The Bronte Sisters had to use male personas to get their poems published. J. K. Rowling and S. E. Hinton had to use these name by their publishers’ request so that they

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