# List of pen names

This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's name may be known only to the publisher, or may come to be common knowledge.
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## A

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| A. C. Q. W. | Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston | 19th-century American poet, novelist, hymnist, diarist |
| A. H. Tammsaare | Anton Hansen | 20th-century Estonian writer |
| A. J. Finn | Daniel Mallory | Author of The Woman in the Window |
| A. Flowerdew | Alice Flowerdew | English teacher, religious poet, hymnist |
| A Friend | Mary Elizabeth Lee | 19th-century American writer |
| A Lady | Hannah Pickard | 19th-century American novelist |
| A Lady | Jane Austen | 19th-century British novelist |
| A Lady of Maine | Sally Wood | Maine's first novelist |
| A Lady of Massachusetts | Sally Wood | Maine's first novelist |
| A Lady of South Carolina | Mary Elizabeth Moragne Davis | 19th-century American diarist, author |
| A New Englander Over-Sea | John Neal | Used to publish Authorship, a Tale |
| A.A. Fair | Erle Stanley Gardner | One of several that he used |
| Aapeli | Simo Puupponen | 20th-century Finnish writer and chatty article writer |
| Aaron Wolfe | Dean Koontz | |
| Abigail Van Buren | Pauline Phillips and then Jeanne Phillips | Mother and daughter advice columnists for Dear Abby |
| Abram Tertz | Andrei Sinyavsky | |
| Abu Nuwas | Hasin ibn Hani al Hakami | 8th-century Arabic language poet (Persia) |
| Acton Bell | Anne Brontë | |
| Ada L. Halstead | Laura Eugenia Terry Newhall | American writer |
| Adasha | Katherine Grinnell | American lecturer, author, social reformer |
| Adidnac | Lily C. Whitaker | American author, educator |
| Adrienne | Julia Pleasants Creswell | 19th-century American poet, novelist (also used pen name, "Amelia") |
| Adunis | Ali Ahmad Said Esber | Syrian poet, essayist and translator |
| Æ | George William Russell | Irish poet and theosophist (1867 - 1935) |
| Aiguillette | Matilda Marian Pullan | 19th-century British writer |
| Alan Gould | Victor Canning | |
| Alan Smithee | various | Pen name used by American film directors under certain circumstances |
| Alberto Moravia | Alberto Pincherle | |
| Alcofribas Nasier | François Rabelais | |
| Alex Kava | Sharon M. Kava | American author of psychological suspense novels. |
| Alexander Kent | Douglas Reeman | |
| Alexis Hill Alexis Hill Jordan | Louise Titchener and Ruth Glick | 20th-century American romance novelists |
| Algoth Tietäväinen | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author |
| Ali Hazelwood | Unknown | Italian-born American romance novelist and neuroscience professor who wrote The Love Hypothesis, Check & Mate, among other books. |
| Alice Acland | Anne Wignall | 20th-century English author |
| Alice Addertongue | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Alice Campion | Denise Tart, Jane St Vincent Welch, Jane Richards, Jenny Crocker, and Madeline Oliver | Group of Australian collaborative writers |
| Alma Vivian Mylo | Annie Virginia McCracken | American author, editor |
| Alyssa Howard | Louise Titchener, Eileen Buckholtz, Ruth Glick, and Carolyn Males | 20th-century American romance novelists |
| Amanda Cross | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun | 20th-century American mystery writer |
| Amanda Quick | Jayne Ann Krentz | American writer of romance novels |
| Amelia | Amelia B. Coppuck Welby | 19th-century American poet |
| Ana Paula Arendt | Railssa Peluti Alencar | 21st-century Brazilian author |
| Anatole France | Jacques Anatole François Thibault | 20th-century French author |
| Andre Norton | Alice Mary Norton | 20th-century American fiction author whose other aliases include Andrew North and Allen Weston |
| Andrej Zivor | Andrej Tisma | |
| Andrew MacAllan | James Leasor | 20th-century British writer |
| Andrew MacDonald | William Luther Pierce | |
| Ann Atom | Jeannette H. Walworth | 19th-century American novelist, journalist |
| Ann Landers | Ruth Crowley and then Eppie Lederer | Advice columnists for Ask Ann Landers |
| Anna L. Cunningham | Ada Langworthy Collier | American poet, writer |
| Anne Chaplet | Cora Stephan | 20th-century German crime novelist and journalist |
| Anne Hathaway | Mary Bigelow Ingham | American writer, educator, social reformer |
| Anne Knish | Arthur Davison Ficke | Co-author of Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments |
| Anne Marreco | Anne Wignall | 20th-century English author |
| Anne Perry | Juliet Marion Hulme | |
| Anne Rice | Howard Allen Frances O'Brien | Other aliases: Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure |
| Annulet Andrews | Maude Andrews Ohl | American journalist, poet, novelist |
| Anonymous | Joe Klein | Used to conceal his identity for the initial publication of the novel Primary Colors |
| Anthony Afterwit | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Anthony Boucher | William Anthony Parker White | American science fiction editor and writer of mystery novels and short stories |
| Anthony Burgess | John Anthony Burgess Wilson | 20th-century British writer |
| Anthony Gilbert | Lucy Beatrice Malleson | British author of the Arthur Crook crime fiction novels |
| Anthony Mills | William Joseph Slim | British military commander after writing novels, short stories, and other publications earlier in his career. |
| Anthony North | Dean Koontz | |
| Antosha Chekhonte | Anton Chekhov | 19th-century Russian physician and author, who also used the pseudonyms "Man Without a Spleen" and "My Brother's Brother" |
| Arkon Daraul | Idries Shah | |
| Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne | 19th-century American humor writer |
| Asdreni | Aleksandër Stavre Drenova | 20th-century Albanian poet |
| Auber Forestier | Aubertine Woodward Moore | 19th-century American musician, writer |
| Aunt Dorothy | Lettie S. Bigelow | American poet and author of the long nineteenth century |
| Aunt Fanny | Frances Elizabeth Barrow | 19th-century American children's writer |
| Aunt Julia | Julia Colman | American temperance educator, activist, editor, writer of the long nineteenth century |
| Aunt Libbie | Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt | American philosopher, author of the long nineteenth century |
| Aunt Marjorie | Margaret Elizabeth Sangster | American poet, author, editor of the long nineteenth century |
| Aunt Nabby | Lizzie P. Evans-Hansell | American novelist, short-story writer of the long nineteenth century |
| Aunt Philury | Helen M. Winslow | American editor, author, publisher, journalist of the long nineteenth century |
| Aunt Stomly | Emeline S. Burlingame | American editor and evangelist of the long nineteenth century |
| Avi | Edward Irving Wortis | |
| Ayako Sono | Chizuko Miura | 20th-century Japanese novelist |
| Ayn Rand | Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum | 20th-century fiction writer and creator of the philosophy Objectivism |
| Azorín | José Martínez Ruiz | |

## B

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| B. | Phoebe Hinsdale Brown | 19th-century American hymnwriter |
| B. Traven | unknown | 20th-century novelist, aka Bruno Traven |
| B. E. E. | E. E. Brown | 19th-century American writer, artist |
| B. F. Cocker | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Ba Jin | Li Yaotang | 20th-century Chinese writer |
| Banaphul | Balāi Chānd Mukhopādhyāy | Bengali author, playwright and poet |
| Barbara Michaels | Barbara Mertz | |
| Barbara Vine | Ruth Rendell | Late 20th- and early 21st-century British author who wrote a subset of her work under this pseudonym |
| Bartholomew Gill | Mark C. McGarrity | American crime fiction novelist and newspaper feature writer of nature and outdoor recreation topics |
| BB | Denys Watkins-Pitchford | 20th-century illustrator and children's book author |
| Beachcomber | J. B. Morton and D. B. Wyndham Lewis | Used for the surrealist humorous column By the Way in the Daily Express |
| bell hooks | Gloria Jean Watkins | |
| Belle Bremer | Martina Swafford | American poet of the long nineteenth century |
| Benevolus | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Berrintho | Robert Roberthin | 17th-century German poet |
| Bessie Beech | Martha D. Lincoln | American author and journalist of the long nineteenth century |
| Betsey Bancker | Mary E. C. Bancker | American author of the long nineteenth century |
| Betsy B. | Mary Therese Austin | 19th-century American theater critic, travel writer |
| Bharathidasan | Kanagasabai Subburathnam | 20th-century Tamil poet |
| Bing Xin | Xie Wanying | 20th-century Chinese writer |
| Blaise Cendrars | Frédéric Louis Sauser | |
| Bob Hart | Al Trace | |
| Boris Akunin | Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili | |
| Boum | Samantha Leriche-Gionet | French Canadian animator, illustrator, and comic strip author |
| Boz | Charles Dickens | 19th-century British novelist |
| Boz | Raymond Burrell | |
| Brada | Henrietta Consuelo Sansom, Countess of Quigini Puliga | French writer, novelist |
| Branislav Nušić | Alkibijad Nuša | |
| Brian Coffey | Dean Koontz | |
| Brynjolf Bjarme | Henrik Ibsen | |
| Busy Body | Benjamin Franklin | |

## C

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| C 33 | Oscar Wilde | |
| C. H. H. | Clara H. Hazelrigg | American author, educator, reformer |
| C. H. Stranahan | Clara Harrison Stranahan | American author, college founder |
| C. S. Forester | Cecil Smith | 20th-century writer of the Captain Horatio Hornblower novels, The African Queen, and other novels |
| Caelia Shortface | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Camilla K. Von K. | Mary Hall-Wood | 19th-century American poet, editor, author |
| Cantinflas | Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes | |
| Caris Sima | Clara Mountcastle | 19th-century Canadian author |
| Carr Dickson | John Dickson Carr | 20th-century author of detective stories |
| Carrie Carlton | Elizabeth Chamberlain Wright | 19th-century California writer |
| Carter Dickson | John Dickson Carr | 20th-century author of detective stories |
| Carter Holmes | John Neal | Used when writing for Blackwood's Magazine |
| Cassandra | William Connor | 20th-century left-wing journalist for The Daily Mirror |
| Cassandra Clare | Judith Rumelt Lewis | American author of young adult fiction |
| Catharine Carr | Rosalind Wade | British novelist |
| Catherine Cole | Martha R. Field | American journalist |
| Catherine Shaw | Leila Schneps | Author of mathematically themed classic murder mysteries |
| Chanakya | Jawaharlal Nehru | First Indian Prime Minister |
| Charles Louis Bernays | Karl Ludwig Bernays | German journalist |
| Charles C. Lee | Martha Parmelee Rose | American non-fiction writer |
| Charles Moulton | William Moulton Marston | Creator of Wonder Woman comic book character |
| Charles Norden | Lawrence Durrell | Author of The Alexandria Quartet and Panic Spring as Norden |
| Charlotte | Charlotte Fillebrown Jerauld | American poet, story writer |
| Charlotte Jay | Geraldine Halls | |
| Cherry Wilder | Cherry Barbara Grimm | |
| Cherubina de Gabriak | Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva | |
| Christian Reid | Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan | American author of Land of the Sky |
| Christina Lauren | Christina Hobbs, Lauren Billings | |
| Christianna Brand | Mary Christianna Lewis | British crime fiction writer |
| Christopher Pike | Kevin Christopher McFadden | Prolific author of young-adult horror and sci-fi novels |
| Citizen | Sarah Carmichael Harrell | American educator, temperance reformer, writer |
| Claire Morgan | Patricia Highsmith | American novelist and short story writer |
| Clare Richards Clare Richmond | Louise Titchener and Carolyn Males | 20th-century American romance novelists |
| Clarence Wellford | Louise Collier Willcox | American author, editor, anthologist, translator |
| Clark McMeekin | Dorothy Clark and Isabel McMeekin | Wrote historical novels |
| Clem Watts | Al Trace | |
| Clinton Montague | H. Maria George Colby | American writer |
| Clive Hamilton, N. W. Clerk | C. S. Lewis | Used when publishing Spirits in Bondage and Dymer |
| Colin Douglas | Colin Thomas Currie | 20th-century Scottish novelist |
| Coralie | Mary M. Cohen | American social economist, writer |
| Cordwainer Smith | Paul M. A. Linebarger | 20th-century science fiction author |
| Cousin Annie | Annie Maria Barnes | American journalist, editor, author |
| Cress | Alice Hobbins Porter | British-born American journalist, editor |
| Currer Bell | Charlotte Brontë | |
| Curtis Yorke | Susan Rowley Richmond Lee | Scottish writer, novelist |
| Curzio Malaparte | Kurt Erich Suckert | |

## D

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Daisy Eyebright | Sophia Orne Johnson | 19th-century American author |
| Dan Crow | Ernest Aris | |
| Daniel Defoe | Daniel Foe | |
| Daniil Kharms | Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev | |
| Danuta de Rhodes | Dan Rhodes | |
| David Agnew | various | Pen name used by BBC television drama screenwriters under certain circumstances |
| David Axton | Dean Koontz | |
| David Meade | unknown | American conspiracy theorist, researcher, and book author |
| David Michaels | Raymond Benson | |
| Davina Blake | Deborah Swift | Used for her more contemporary work |
| Dazai Osamu | Shuji Tsushima | |
| Deanna Dwyer | Dean Koontz | |
| Diablo Cody | Brook Busey | Screenwriter |
| Diedrich Knickerbocker | Washington Irving | Early 19th-century U.S. writer |
| Dimasalang | José Rizal | National hero of the Philippines, author of Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo |
| Dina Linwood | S. M. I. Henry | American evangelist, temperance reformer, poet, author |
| Dominique Aury | Anne Desclos | 20th-century French author and critic who wrote under this name for her early works |
| Dora Rosetti | Nelli Kaloglopoulou | 20th-century Greek LGBT author |
| Douglas Spaulding | Ray Bradbury | |
| Dr. Seuss | Theodor Seuss Geisel | 20th-century American writer and cartoonist, best known for his children's books; aka Theo LeSieg for books that he wrote and others illustrated |

## E

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| E. B. C. | Essie B. Cheesborough | 19th-century prolific American writer |
| E. Cavazza; Elisabeth Pullen | Elisabeth Cavazza | American author, journalist, music critic |
| E. G. A. | Emily Gillmore Alden | American author, educator |
| E. L. James | Erika Leonard, born Erika Mitchell | Author of Fifty Shades of Grey |
| E. Livingston Prescott | Edith Spicer Jay | British military novelist |
| E. N. Chapin | Nettie Sanford Chapin | 19th-century American historian, author, newspaper publisher |
| E. S. Elliott | Emily Elizabeth Steele Elliott | 19th-century English poet, hymnwriter, novelist, editor |
| E. V. Cunningham | Howard Fast | American novelist |
| Eando Binder | Earl and Otto Binder | Mid-20th-century science fiction authors |
| Eckhart Tolle | Ulrich Leonard Tolle | Author of The Power of Now |
| Ed McBain | Evan Hunter, born as Salvatore A. Lombino | |
| Edgar Box | Gore Vidal | |
| Edith May | Anne Drinker | 19th-century American writer |
| Edith Van Dyne | L. Frank Baum | |
| Edmond Dantès | John Hughes | 20th-century American screenwriter and director; used this name on later works |
| Edmund Crispin | Robert Bruce Montgomery | British crime fiction writer |
| Edogawa Ranpo | Tarō Hirai | |
| Edward Charles | Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted | 20th-century British educator and author |
| Edward Fallon | Robert Gregory Browne, J.D. Rhoades, Tim Tresslar, Will Graham, Rob Cornell, Allan Leverone | Supernatural suspense series LINGER, written by multiple authors. |
| Edward Garrett | Isabella Fyvie Mayo | 19th-century Scottish poet, novelist |
| Edward Pygge | Ian Hamilton, John Fuller, Clive James, Russell Davies | |
| Edwin Caskoden | Charles Major | |
| Egor Don | Eugene Gordon (writer) | African-American journalist |
| Effie Johnson | E. J. Richmond | American author |
| Elaine | Kate Simpson Hayes | Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet |
| Eleanor Kirk | Eleanor Maria Easterbrook Ames | 19th-century American writer |
| Eleanor Putnam | Harriet Bates | 19th-century American poet, novelist |
| Elena Ferrante | unknown | Italian novelist |
| Eleonore von Münster | Eleonore von Grothaus | 18th-century German writer |
| Elia | Charles Lamb | The pen name Lamb used as a contributor to The London Magazine. |
| Eliza | Elizabeth Carter | English poet, classicist, writer, translator, linguist, polymath |
| Elizabeth Peters | Barbara Mertz | |
| Ellen Burroughs | Sophie Jewett | American poet, translator, and professor |
| Ellery Queen | Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee | 20th-century detective fiction |
| Ellis Bell | Emily Brontë | |
| Ellis Peters | Edith Pargeter | |
| Elma South | Essie B. Cheesborough | 19th-century prolific American writer |
| Elsa Triolet | Elsa Kagan | |
| Elsie J. Oxenham | Elsie Jeanette Dunkerley | |
| Em Kol Chai | Chava Shapiro | |
| Emanuel Morgan | Witter Bynner | Co-author of Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments |
| Emil Sinclair | Hermann Hesse | Demian was originally published under this pseudonym. |
| Émile Ajar | Romain Gary | French author; only author to win the Prix Goncourt twice, once under his real name, and once under his pen name |
| Emilia Serrano de Wilson | Emilia Serrano y García | Spanish writer, journalist, feminist, traveler |
| Emily Hawthorne | Emily Thornton Charles | 19th-century American poet, journalist, editor, newspaper founder |
| Emily Rodda | Jennifer Rowe | Australian children's fantasy author; published crime fiction for adults under her own name; also writes under the alias Mary-Ann Dickinson |
| Emma Lathen | Mary Jane Latsis and Martha Henissart | Economist/lawyer team write humorous banking mysteries with global scope |
| Ena Fitzgerald | Georgina Fitzgerald-Galaher MacMillan | Edwardian era English novelist, poet, short story writer |
| Enna Duval | Anne Hampton Brewster | |
| Eric Iverson | Harry Turtledove | |
| Erich Maria Remarque | Erich Paul Remark | |
| Erin Hunter | Kate Cary, Cherith Baldry, and Victoria Holmes | Authors of the fantasy novel series Warriors |
| Erin Watt | Elle Kennedy, Jen Frederick | |
| Erle Douglas | Eliza D. Keith | American educator, suffragist, journalist |
| Eulalie | Mary Eulalie Fee Shannon | 19th-century American poet, short story writer |
| Euphrosyne | Julia Nyberg | |
| Eva | Fanny Tuxen | 19th-century Danish writer |
| Eva G. | Eva Griffith Thompson | American newspaper editor |

## F

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Fan-Fan | F. Burge Griswold | 19th-century American author |
| Fanny Clar | Clara Fanny Olivier | French journalist, writer |
| Fernán Caballero | Cecilia Böhl de Faber | Spanish author |
| Fidelitas | Anna Blackwell | 19th-century British writer, journalist, translator |
| Filia Ecclesia | Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp | British-born American educator, author |
| Flann O'Brien | Brian O'Nolan | |
| Florio | Fanny Purdy Palmer | American author, poet, journalist, lecturer, social activist, clubwoman |
| Floyd Bentley | Sarah Dyer Hobart | American poet, author |
| Ford Madox Ford | Ford Hermann Hueffer | Early 20th-century English novelist and poet |
| Frances Brody | Frances McNeil | |
| Francis Bennett | Edwin Keppel Bennett | |
| Frank Dashmore | Fanny Murdaugh Downing | 19th-century American author, poet |
| Franklin W. Dixon | Leslie McFarlane | 20th-century Canadian writer was the first of a variety of different authors to use this pen name for The Hardy Boys novels |
| Françoise Sagan | Françoise Quoirez | |

## G

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Gisèle d'Estoc | Marie-Paule Alice Courbe | 19th-century French writer, sculptor, feminist |
| Gabriela Mistral | Lucila Godoy Alcayaga | Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1945 |
| Gabrielle Réval | Gabrielle Élise Victoire Logerot | French novelist, essayist |
| Gale Forest | Emma May Alexander Reinertsen | American writer, social reformer |
| Garth Godfrey | Agnes Leonard Hill | American journalist, author, poet, newspaper founder and publisher, evangelist, social reformer |
| Geoffrey Crayon | Washington Irving | Used when publishing The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. |
| George Eliot | Mary Ann Evans | 19th-century English novelist |
| George Groth | Martin Gardner | Criticized Gardner's The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener |
| George Orwell | Eric Arthur Blair | 20th-century British author and essayist |
| George Sand | Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin | 19th-century French novelist and early feminist |
| Georges Courteline | Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux | |
| Gérard de Nerval | Gérard Labrunie | 19th-century French poet, essayist and translator |
| Gerald Wiley | Ronnie Barker | |
| Geronimo Stilton | Elisabetta Dami | Author of the Geronimo Stilton series; Geronimo Stilton is the title character in the series |
| Gertrude Glenn | Mary Ware | American "southland" poet, prose writer |
| Gertrude St. Orme | Annie McCarer Darlington | American poet |
| Grace Goodhouse | Evalena Fryer Hedley | American journalist, editor, and author |
| Grace Greenwood | Sara Jane Lippincott | American author, poet, correspondent, lecturer, newspaper founder |
| Grace Shirley | Lurana W. Sheldon | American novelist, poet, lecturer, editor |
| Graham R. Tomson | Rosamund Marriott Watson | British poet and critic |
| Grant Naylor | Rob Grant and Doug Naylor | Late 20th-century creators of the science fiction-sitcom, Red Dwarf |
| Guillaume Apollinaire | Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki | 20th-century French poet, writer, and art critic |
| Gulzar | Sampooran Singh Kalra | Noted Indian poet, lyricist, director, and playwright, who works primarily in Hindi and Urdu languages |
| Gun Buster | John Charles Austin and Richard Campion Austin | Father and son team who wrote a series of books about British exploits in World War II |
| Guy Cullingford | Constance Lindsay Taylor | 20th-century British mystery author and screenwriter |

## H

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| H.D. | Hilda Doolittle | 20th-century American imagist poet, novelist and memoirist |
| H.E. Sayeh | Hushang Ebtehaj | 20th-century Iranian poet (هوشنگ ابتهاج) |
| H. E. P. | Harriet Pritchard Arnold | 19th-century American author |
| H. M. M. | Helen Merrill Egerton | 20th-century Canadian author |
| H. Maery or Helen Maery | Mary Theodosia Mug | 19th- and 20th-century American nun, author, poet, and composer |
| H. N. Turtletaub | Harry Turtledove | |
| H. S. | Henrietta Skelto | 19th-century German-born Canadian-American social reformer, writer, organizer, lecturer in the German Spanish, English languages |
| H. T. C. | Helen Taggart Clark | American journalist, poet |
| Hagar | Jennie Phelps Purvis | American writer; California pioneer |
| Hajime Yatate | various | Pen name of Sunrise animation staff members |
| Hans Fallada | Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen | German writer |
| Hard Pan | Geraldine Bonner | |
| Harold Robbins | Harold Rubin | |
| Havank | Hans van der Kallen | |
| Henri Ardel | Berthe Abraham | French writer |
| Henri Gordon | Clara M. Brinkerhoff | 19th-century British soprano and romance novelist |
| Henriett Seth F. | Fajcsák Henrietta | |
| Henriette Hardenberg | Margarete Rosenberg | |
| Henry Chalgrain | Harlette Hayem | French woman of letters who wrote literary articles and poetry |
| Henry Handel Richardson | Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson | Early 20th-century Australian author |
| Henry Wade | Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet | British mystery writer (1887-1969) |
| Herblock | Herbert Lawrence Block | 20th-century political cartoonist |
| Hergé | Georges Remi | 20th-century Belgian cartoonist and creator of The Adventures of Tintin |
| Hero Strong | Clara Augusta Jones Trask | 19th-century American dime-novelist |
| Hugh Conway | Frederick John Fargus | |
| Humphrey Ploughjogger | John Adams | 2nd US president and Founding Father (1735-1826) |
| Hugh MacDiarmid | C M Grieve | Scottish Renaissance poet |

## I

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| I. McC. Wilson | Ibbie McColm Wilson | American poet |
| Ian Maclaren | Rev John Watson | Scottish author and theologian |
| Ianthe | Emma Catherine Embury | 19th-century American author, poet |
| Ibn Warraq | various | Pen name has traditionally been adopted by dissident authors throughout the history of Islam, including a current writer from India |
| Iceberg Slim | Robert Beck | African American writer |
| Ida Fairfield | Mary Bassett Clarke | 19th-century American writer |
| Ida Glenwood | Cynthia Roberts Gorton | 19th-century blind American poet, author |
| Ide Delmar | Essie B. Cheesborough | 19th-century American writer |
| Ilkka Remes | Petri Pykälä | 20th- and 21st-century Finnish writer |
| Ilya Ilf | Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg | Soviet journalist and writer of Jewish origin |
| Inez | Frances Laughton Mace | 19th-century American poet |
| Ion Barbu | Dan Barbilian | 20th-century Romanian poet and mathematician |
| Iota | Dorothy Ann Thrupp | 19th-century British Psalmist, hymnwriter, translator |
| Irmari Rantamala | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author |
| Irwin Shaw | Irwin Shamforoff | |
| Isak Dinesen | Karen Blixen | 20th-century Danish author of Out of Africa and Babette's Feast |
| Isola | Mrs. Bartle Teeling | Guernsey writer |
| Italo Svevo | Aron Ettore Schmitz | |
| Iyanla Vanzant | Rhonda Eva Harris | Author, spiritual teacher, and television personality |

## J

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| J. D. Robb | Nora Roberts | |
| J. E. McConaughy | Julia Eliza McConaughy | 19th-century American litterateur and author of religious literature |
| J. F. O'Donnell | Jessie Fremont O'Donnell | 19th-century American writer |
| J. I. Vatanen | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author |
| J. K. Mayo | William Watson | Scottish author of spy thrillers |
| J. K. Rowling | Joanne Rowling | British author of the Harry Potter books |
| J. T. | Jeanette Threlfall | British hymnwriter, poet |
| Jack Kirby | Jacob Kurtzberg | Comic book pioneer |
| Jack the Ripper | unknown | Victorian serial killer, author of Dear Boss letter and From Hell letter |
| Jamal T. Millwood | Chris Todd | Released the supposed memoir of Kim Porter, Kim's lost words |
| James Dillinger | James Robert Baker | |
| James Herriot | James Alfred Wight | 20th-century British writer |
| James S. A. Corey | Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck | Authors of science fiction series The Expanse |
| James Tiptree Jr. | Alice Bradley Sheldon | 20th-century science fiction author |
| Jane Somers | Doris Lessing | The Diaries of Jane Somers: The Diary of a Good Neighbor and If The Old Could |
| Janet Grant | Mary Catherine Crowley | American writer |
| Janez Janša (visual artist), Janez Janša (director), and Janez Janša (performance artist) | various | Pen name used by three contemporary artists who changed their names in 2007 to the name of the Slovenian right-wing politician |
| Jay Livingston | Jacob Harold Levison | |
| Jean D'Anin | Marie Léra | French journalist, novelist, translator |
| Jean Kincaid | Estelle M. H. Merrill | American journalist, editor |
| Jean de La Brète | Alice Cherbonnel | French novelist |
| Jean de Lutry | Jeanine Delpech | French journalist, translator, novelist |
| Jean Paul | Johann Paul Friedrich Richter | |
| Jean Plaidy | Eleanor Hibbert | |
| Jean Ray | Raymundus Joannes de Kremer | |
| Jehu O'Cataract | John Neal | Pen name given to the author by fellow Delphian Club members |
| Jemyma | Marietta Holley | American humorist |
| Jennie Woodbine | Annie R. Blount | American poet, short story writer, and newspaper editor |
| Jennie Crayon | Emily Lee Sherwood Ragan | American author, journalist |
| Jeremy Bishop | Jeremy Robinson | |
| Jin Yong | Louis Cha Leung-yung | 20th-century Chinese-language novelist |
| Joan Ure | Elizabeth Thoms Clark | Scottish poet and playwright |
| Joe Hill | Joseph Hillstrom King | |
| Johann Joachim Sautscheck | Roman Turovsky-Savchuk | |
| Johannes Linnankoski | Vihtori Johan Peltonen | |
| Johannes de silentio | Søren Kierkegaard | |
| Johannes Vares Barbarus | Johannes Vares | |
| John Beynon | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris | Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer |
| John Christopher | Samuel Youd | |
| John G. Andrews | Emma Huntington Nason | American poet, author, musical composer |
| John Hill | Dean Koontz | |
| John Lange | Michael Crichton | 20th-century science fiction author |
| John le Carré | David John Moore Cornwell | 20th-century British writer |
| John O'Cataract | John Neal | Used to publish Battle of Niagara, a Poem, without Notes; and Goldau, or the Maniac Harper |
| John Sedges | Pearl S. Buck | Author of "The Townsman" |
| John Wyndham | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris | Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer |
| Johny Hunt | Margaret Hunt Brisbane | American poet |
| Jonathan Oldstyle | Washington Irving | Author of Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. |
| Joseph Conrad | Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski | 20th-century Polish-British author |
| Joseph Howard | Paul Rudnick | Screenwriting credit for Sister Act; he refused to have his real name associated with it |
| Josephine Tey | Elizabeth MacKintosh | 20th-century British writer, who also used the pseudonym "Gordon Daviot" |
| Judith Jorgenson | Ella Hamilton Durley | Late 19th/early 20th-c American educator, newspaper editor, journalist |
| Juhani Tervapää | Hella Wuolijoki | 20th-century Estonian-born Finnish writer |
| Julia Quinn | Julia Pottinger | |
| Julien Gordon | Julia Cruger | American novelist |
| Justitia | Emily Parmely Collins | American suffragist, activist, writer |

## K

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| K. Hardesh | Clement Greenberg | 20th-century American art critic |
| Kamba Thorpe | Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy | 19th-century American author |
| Karl Rene Moore | A. R. Morlan | American novelist and short story writer |
| Kate Cleaveland | Rebecca S. Nichols | 19th-century American poet |
| Kate Elliott | Alis A. Rasmussen | 20th/21st-century fantasy author |
| Ka-Tsetnik 135633 | Yehiel De-Nur | |
| Kennilworthy Whisp | Joanne Rowling (J. K. Rowling) | Used for the publication of Quidditch Through the Ages, from the Harry Potter universe |
| Kir Bulychov | Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheiko (Игорь Всеволодович Можейко) | 20th-century Russian science fiction writer and historian |
| Korney Chukovsky | Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov | |
| Kozma Prutkov | Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Aleksey Zhemchuzhnikov, and two others | Collective name who published in Sovremennik during 1836–1866 |
| Kurban Said | disputed | Author of Ali and Nino, a novel originally published in 1937 |

## L

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| L. | Lois Bryan Adams | 19th-century American writer; newspaper editor/proprietor |
| L. H. S. | Lucinda Hinsdale Stone | 19th-century American feminist, educator, traveler, writer, philanthropist |
| L. M. N. | Maria Frances Anderson | 19th-century French-born American hymnwriter and writer |
| Laong Laan | José Rizal | |
| Laura | María del Pilar Sinués de Marco | prolific 19th-century Spanish writer of novels, poems, and non-fiction; newspaper editor |
| Lauren Kelly | Joyce Carol Oates | Author of Blood Mask, The Stolen Heart, and Take Me, Take Me With You |
| Lauri Gilmore | Melissa McTernan | Author of The Pumpkin Spice Café and the other books in the Dream Harbor series. |
| Lazlo Toth | Don Novello | Author of the satiric The Lazlo Letters and other books; the name was taken from that of a deranged Hungarian-born Australian man named Laszlo Toth who vandalized Michelangelo's statue Pieta in Rome |
| Leigh Nichols | Dean Koontz | |
| Lemony Snicket | Daniel Handler | Author of A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| Lena | Mary Torrans Lathrap | 19th-century American poet, preacher, suffragist, social reformer |
| Lenora | Lou Singletary Bedford | 19th-century American poet, author, editor |
| Leoline | Emma B. Dunham | American poet, teacher |
| Leslie Charteris | Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin | Half-Chinese, half-English author of primarily mystery fiction such as the Simon Templar series |
| Lester del Rey | Leonard Knapp | American science fiction author and editor |
| Lewis Allan | Abel Meeropol | |
| Lewis Carroll | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson | 19th-century British author, mathematician, Anglican clergyman, logician, and amateur photographer, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland |
| Lewis Padgett | Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore | American husband and wife science fiction authors |
| Lewis Grassic Gibbon | James Leslie Mitchell | 20th-century Scottish novelist |
| Lewtrah | Mary Hartwell Catherwood | 19th-century American writer |
| Liisan-Antti ja Jussi Porilainen | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author |
| Lisa Ben | Edythe D. Eyde | 20th-century American author |
| L'Inconnue | Lucy Virginia French | 19th-century American author |
| Lizzie M. Boynton | Elizabeth Boynton Harbert | 19th-century American author, lecturer, reformer philanthropist |
| Lobsang Rampa | Cyril Henry Hoskin | The author of The Third Eye, supposedly authentic autobiography of a monk born in Tibet, who was unmasked as a British plumber that decided in 1958 to write the bestseller |
| Lorenzo Da Ponte | Emmanuele Conegliano | |
| Louis-Ferdinand Céline | Louis-Ferdinand Destouches | |
| Louis Hammond Willis | Louise Hammond Willis Snead | American writer, lecturer, artist |
| Lu Xun | Zhou Shuren | 20th-century Chinese writer and cultural critic |
| Lucas Parkes | John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris | Post-apocalyptic British science fiction writer |
| Lucile | Lucinda Barbour Helm | American author, editor, women's religious activist |
| Lucrece | Cora Linn Daniels | American author |
| Luisa Cappiani | Luisa Kapp-Young | Austrian soprano, musical educator, essayist |
| Lydia Koidula | Lydia Emilie Florentine Jannsen | |

## M

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| M. B. M. Toland | Mary Bertha McKenzie (or Morrison) Toland | American poet and social leader |
| M. C. G. | Mary C. Billings | 19th-century American writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary |
| M. E. C. Bates | Martha Elizabeth Cram Bates | American writer, journalist, newspaper editor |
| M. E. W. | Marion E. Warner | American poet and short story writer |
| M. R. M. | Mary Rootes Thornton McAboy | 19th-century American poet |
| M. S. Pine | Mary Paulina Finn | 19th- and 20th-century nun, playwright, poet, author, and English teacher. |
| M. Barnard Eldershaw | Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw | |
| M. Wintermute | Martha Wintermute | American author, poet |
| Maarten Maartens | Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz | |
| Mabel Percy | Mary R. P. Hatch | 19th-century American writer |
| Mabelle | Hannah Tobey Farmer | 19th-century American writer, philanthropist, social reformer |
| Maddox | George Ouzounian | American author known for his website The Best Page in the Universe |
| Madhur Piya | Gokulotsavji Maharaj | Indian classical vocalist, composer |
| Mackenzi Lee | MacKenzie Van Engelenhoven | American young adult fantasy author |
| Madeleine Brent | Peter O'Donnell | |
| Maiju Lassila | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author |
| Maironis | Jonas Mačiulis | |
| Mao Dun | Shen Dehong | 20th-century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist |
| Marc Hélys | Marie Léra | French journalist, novelist, translator |
| Margaret Allston | Anna Farquhar Bergengren | American writer, editor |
| Margaret Frances | Frances Margaret Milne | Irish-born American author, librarian |
| Margaret Vandegrift | Margaret Thomson Janvier | American poet and children's book writer |
| Margaret Wynman | Ella Hepworth Dixon | English author, editor |
| Margret Holmes Bates | Martha Mary Viktoria Ernsperger Bates | American author |
| Marguerite | Jessie Margaret King | 19th-century Scottish essayist, journalist, poet |
| Marian Douglas | Annie Douglas Green Robinson | American poet and short story writer |
| Marie Norman | Mary E. Ireland | American author, translator |
| Marion Howard | Marion Howard Brazier | American journalist, author |
| Mark Brandis | Nikolai von Michalewsky | |
| Mark Twain | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | 19th-century American humorist, author, and lecturer |
| Marka Wohl | Kate Simpson Hayes | Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet |
| Martha Careful | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Marton Taiga | Martti Löfberg | 20th-century Finnish pulp writer, who also used several other pseudonym |
| Mary Doyle | Mary Evelyn Hitchcock | American author, explorer |
| Mary Hartwell | Mary Hartwell Catherwood | 19th-century American writer |
| Mary A. Holmes | Georgie A. Hulse McLeod | 19th-century American author, hymnwriter |
| Mary Markwell | Kate Simpson Hayes | Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet |
| Mary Westmacott | Agatha Christie | 20th-century British writer who wrote some of her works under this pseudonym |
| Matthew Bramble | Andrew Macdonald | Scottish clergyman, poet and playwright |
| Mattie May | Martha Pearson Smith | American poet, musician |
| Max Halstock | James Leasor | 20th-century British writer |
| Max Stirner | Johann Kaspar Schmidt | 19th-century German philosopher |
| Maxwell Grant | Primarily Walter B. Gibson, shared with Theodore Tinsley, Bruce Elliott and Lester Dent | Author of The Shadow pulp novellas |
| May Miller | Maria Dolores Acevedo | Spanish romance and western writer |
| Maya Angelou | Marguerite Annie Johnson | African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist |
| Meg | Mary Temple Bayard | American writer, journalist |
| Mencius Moldbug | Curtis Yarvin | 21st-century political theorist |
| Mercedes | Katherine Eleanor Conway | Editor-in-chief of The Pilot |
| Mercurius Oxoniensis | Hugh Trevor-Roper | Historian, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and author of the pseudonymous Letters of Mercurius Oxoniensis to his 'brother' Londiniensis which appeared in the Spectator Magazine 1970–71 and later in book form |
| Michael Arlen | Dikran Kuyumjian | |
| Michael Innes | J. I. M. Stewart | |
| Michael Serafian | Malachi Martin | |
| Migjeni | Millosh Gjergj Nikolla | 20th-century Albanian poet |
| Miles Standish | Lelia P. Roby | American writer |
| Minnie C. Ballard | Mary Canfield Ballard | 19th-century American poet, hymnwriter |
| Minnie Mary Lee | Julia Amanda Sargent Wood | 19th-century American author |
| Minnie Myrtle Miller | Theresa Dyer | 19th-century American author |
| Miranda | Mathilde Alanic | French writer of sentimental novels and short stories |
| Miss Manners | Judith Martin | Author, columnist, and etiquette authority |
| Mizpah | Mildred A. Bonham | 19th-century American traveler and journalist |
| Moina | Anna Peyre Dinnies | 19th-century American poet, miscellaneous writer |
| Molière | Jean Baptiste Poquelin | 17th-century French theatre writer, director and actor, and writer of comic satire |
| Mollie Myrtle | Agnes Leonard Hill | American journalist, author, poet, newspaper founder and publisher, evangelist, social reformer |
| Mother Goose | Jeannette H. Walworth | 19th-century American novelist, journalist |
| Motte Hall | Essie B. Cheesborough | 19th-century prolific American writer |
| Mr. Blackwell | Richard Sylvan Selzer | Fashion critic, journalist, creator of annual "Ten Worst Dressed Women List". Also used the alias "Richard Blackwell". |
| Mr. Fowler | Sarah Morgan Dawson | newspaper editorial writer and diarist |
| Mrs. A. Elmore | Ann Morrison Moore | American writer, editor, activist, philanthropist |
| Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller | Mittie Frances Clarke Point | American dime-novelist |
| Mrs. Alfred Barnard | Frances Catherine Barnard | 19th-century English writer, poet, playwright |
| Mrs. B. C. Rude | Ellen Sergeant Rude | American poet, author, temperance reformer |
| Mrs. Benjamin H. Craig | Cola Barr Craig | American novelist and short story writer |
| Mrs. Chapman Coleman | Ann Mary Butler Crittenden Coleman | 19th-century American author, translator |
| Mrs. Clarissa Packard | Caroline Howard Gilman | 19th-century American author |
| Mrs. E. Burke Collins | Emma Augusta Sharkey | 19th-century American dime novelist |
| Mrs. F. Berger Moran | Jeannie Blackburn Moran | American novelist |
| Mrs. Findley Braden | Anna Braden | American poet, author, editor |
| Mrs. Francis Rye | Amy Louisa Rye | British-born Canadian writer, social reformer |
| Mrs. George Archibald | Anna Campbell Palmer | American author, editor |
| Mrs. George W. Coleman | Alice Blanchard Coleman | American missionary society leader; periodical literature writer |
| Mrs. H | Anna Morris Holstein | American civil war nurse, author, organizational founder |
| Mrs. H. E. G. Arey | Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey | 19th-century American educator, author, editor, publisher |
| Mrs. J. C. Bateham | Josephine Cushman Bateham | American editor, writer |
| Mrs. J. T. Gracey | Annie Ryder Gracey | American writer, missionary |
| Mrs. James Gray | Mary Ann Browne | British poet, writer of musical scores |
| Mrs. Madeline Leslie | Harriette Newell Woods Baker | 19th-century American novelist, religious writer |
| Mrs. Manners | Cornelia Holroyd Bradley Richards | 19th-century American writer |
| Mrs. Nathaniel Conklin | Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin | 19th-century American author and social activist |
| Mrs. S. L. Baldwin | Esther E. Baldwin | American missionary, teacher, translator, writer, editor |
| Mrs. Thaddeus Horton | Corinne Stocker Horton | American writer, editor |
| Mrs. Wilbur F. Crafts | Sara Jane Crafts | American writer, educator, social reformer |
| Mrs. William Maude | Sophie Dora Spicer Maude | British novelist, writer |
| Mrs. William Starr Dana | Frances Theodora Parsons | 19th-century American nature writer |
| Multatuli | Eduard Douwes Dekker | Dutch writer known for his satirical novel, Max Havelaar (1860) |
| Murray Leinster | William Fitzgerald Jenkins | 20th-century science fiction author |

## N

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| N. W. Clerk | C. S. Lewis | Used when publishing A Grief Observed |
| Nancy Boyd | Edna St. Vincent Millay | |
| Natsume Sōseki | Natsume Kinnosuke | Early 20th-century Japanese novelist |
| Nellie A. Mann | Helen Adelia Manville | 19th-century American poet, litterateur |
| Neville Shute | Neville Norway | British novelist |
| Newt Scamander | Joanne Rowling (J. K. Rowling) | Used for the publication of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, from the Harry Potter universe |
| Nicci French | Nicci Gerard and Sean French | British crime fiction team |
| Nicolas Blake | Cecil Day-Lewis | Poet Laureate of the U.K., 20 mysteries written as Nicolas Blake |
| Nicolas Bourbaki | various | A group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians |
| Nimrod | Charles James Apperley | 19th-century author of The Chase, The Road, and The Turf (on foxhunting, coaching and racing respectively) |
| Nina Gray Clarke | Mary H. Gray Clarke | 19th-century American author, correspondent, poet |
| Nino Culotta | John O'Grady | Australian writer |
| Nisa | Nicola Salerno | Italian lyricist |
| Norman Stuart | Mrs. Bartle Teeling | Guernsey writer |
| Novalis | Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg | |

## O

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| O. Henry | William Sydney Porter | American author of short stories and novels |
| Octavia Hensel | Mary Alice Fonda | 19th-century American musician, author, elocutionist, critic |
| Ogdred Weary | Edward Gorey | |
| Olive Thorne | Harriet Mann Miller | American author, naturalist, ornithologist |
| Olivie Blake | Alexene Farol Follmuth | American author |
| Onoto Watanna | Winnifred Eaton | Canadian author |
| Ouida | Marie Louise de la Ramée | 19th-century English novelist |
| Owen West | Dean Koontz | |

## P

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| P. Albane | Pauline Cassin Caro | 19th-century French novelist |
| P. L. Travers | Helen Goff | Writer of the Mary Poppins series |
| P. Mustapää | Martti Haavio | 20th-century Finnish poet |
| Pablo Neruda | Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto | 20th-century Chilean poet, Nobel laureate |
| Pat Frank | Harry Hart Frank | 20th-century author of the apocalyptic novel Alas, Babylon |
| Patience Strong | Winifred Emma May | 20th-century English poet |
| Paul Annixter | Howard Allison Sturtzel | |
| Paul Celan | Paul Antschel | |
| Paul Éluard | Eugène Grindel | 20th-century French Dada and Surrealist poet |
| Paul French | Isaac Asimov | U.S. science fiction author, when publishing the Lucky Starr series of novels |
| Paul Veronique | Elizabeth Marney Conner | 19th-century American writer, founder of the Buffalo School of Elocution |
| Pauline Periwinkle | S. Isadore Miner | American journalist, poet, teacher, feminist |
| Pauline Réage | Anne Desclos | 20th-century French author and critic who wrote Story of O |
| Peg Woffington | Eve Brodlique | British-born Canadian/American author, journalist |
| Pepeta Roig | Antònia Abelló | Spanish journalist, writer |
| Peggy Pond Church | Margaret Hallett Pond | American author, poet |
| Percy Larkin | Fannie B. Damon | American writer, magazine editor |
| Perez Hilton | Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. | Celebrity blogger and gossip columnist |
| Peter Gast | Heinrich Köselitz | |
| Peter MacAlan | Peter Berresford Ellis | 20th-century British novelist |
| Peter Tremayne | Peter Berresford Ellis | 20th-century British novelist |
| Peter Warlock | Philip Arnold Heseltine | 20th-century British composer |
| Petresia Peters | Julia Carter Aldrich | American author |
| Peyo | Pierre Culliford | 20th-century creator of The Smurfs comics |
| Philemon | Betsy Perk | Dutch author, a pioneer of the Dutch women's movement |
| Philip Guston | Phillip Goldstein | |
| Pierre Delecto | Mitt Romney | American politician and businessman, when using a secret Twitter account in 2019 |
| Pierre Guérande | Hermine Lecomte du Noüy | French novelist, playwright |
| Pierre Loti | Louis Marie Julien Viaud | |
| Pierre Moustiers | Pierre Rossi | French writer, laureate of the 1969 Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française |
| Piers Anthony | Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob | |
| Pisanus Fraxi | Henry Spencer Ashbee | 19th-century book collector, writer, bibliographer, and author of a three-volume bibliography of erotic literature |
| Pittacus Lore | James Frey, Jobie Hughes, and Greg Boose | Authors of the Lorien Legacies series; Pittacus Lore is also a character in the series |
| Plaridel | Marcelo H. del Pilar | Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, freemason, and propagandist |
| Polly | Emma Sheridan Fry | American actor, playwright, teacher |
| Polly Baker | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Premchand | Dhanpat Rai Srivastav | Indian author, notable for his modern Hindustani literature |
| Probus | Nancy H. Adsit | 19th-century American art lecturer, art educator, writer |
| Publius | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay | Writers of The Federalist Papers |
| Publius Decius Mus | Michael Anton | 21st-century American conservative |
| Professor X | unknown | 21st-century author of In the Basement of the Ivory Tower |
| Pseudonymous Bosch | Raphael Simon | Author of The Secret Series, fictional children's books |

## Q

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Q | Arthur Quiller-Couch | Late 19th- and early 20th-century British author, poet, and literary critic |
| Quinn Fawcett | Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett | American mystery authors |

## R

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Raccoona Sheldon | Alice Bradley Sheldon (James Tiptree Jr.) | 20th-century science fiction author |
| Raoul Duke | Hunter S Thompson | 20th century author and journalisT (bat country) |
| Reverie | Tameer Noor | 19th century French author and poet |
| Rachel Bach | Rachel Aaron | American science fiction author |
| Rafael Luna | Matilde Cherner | Spanish novelist, dramatist, literary critic, and journalist |
| Refugitta | Constance Cary Harrison | American writer |
| Regina Frohberg | Rebecca Friedländer | German novelist and short-story writer |
| Rehmat Farrukhabadi | Muhammad Rehmatullah Qureshi | Author and Muslim scholar |
| Renada-Laura Portet | Renada-Laura Calmon-Ouillet | French Northern Catalonia writer and linguist |
| Renee M. Charles | A. R. Morlan | American novelist and short story writer |
| Rhys Bowen | Janet Quin-Harkin | British mystery writer |
| Richard Bachman | Stephen King | Contemporary American horror author |
| Richard Hackstaff | Lurana W. Sheldon | American novelist, poet, lecturer, editor |
| Richard Leander | Richard von Volkmann | |
| Richard Paige | Dean Koontz | |
| Richard Saunders | Benjamin Franklin | The "Poor Richard" of Poor Richard's Almanack |
| Richard Stark | Donald E. Westlake | Westlake used many other pen names as well |
| Ridinghood | Mary V. Tingley Lawrence | American journalist, writer |
| Robert Beauchamp | Jeanine Delpech | French journalist, translator, novelist |
| Robert Galbraith | Joanne Rowling (J. K. Rowling) | Used for the publication of The Cuckoo's Calling |
| Robert Garioch | Robert Garioch Sutherland | 20th-century Scots poet |
| Robert Jordan | James Oliver Rigney Jr. | Author of the bestselling The Wheel of Time fantasy series |
| Robert Markham | Kingsley Amis | |
| Robert Tressell | Robert Croker | |
| Robert O. Saber | Milton K. Ozaki | Mid-20th-century journalist, author and detective novelist (Dressed to Kill (1954) and many others) |
| Robin A Hood | Ernest Aris | |
| Robin Hobb | Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden | 20th-century fantasy author; also published under the pen name Megan Lindholm |
| Robin Red | Ethel Hillyer Harris | American author, including negro dialect and pathetic sketches |
| Roger Fairbairn | John Dickson Carr | |
| Romain Gary | Romain Kacew | |
| Rosamond Smith | Joyce Carol Oates | Novels include Nemesis, Lives of the Twins, Soul Mate, Starr Bright Will Be With You Soon, The Barrens, Snake Eyes, You Can't Catch Me, Kindred Passions, and Double Delight |
| Rosemary Edghill | eluki bes shahar | American writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy |
| Ross Franklyn | Frank Hardy | Left-wing Australian writer best known for his novel Power Without Glory |
| Rushworth Armytage | Rosamund Marriott Watson | British poet and critic |
| Ruth Ogden | Fannie Ogden Ide | American children's book author |

## S

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| S. S. Van Dine | Willard Huntington Wright | Art critic and author of Philo Vance mysteries |
| S. E. Hinton | Susan Eloise Hinton | |
| Saint-John Perse | Alexis Saint-Léger Léger | |
| Saki | Hector Hugh Munro | Early 20th-century British satirist |
| Sallie M. Bryan | Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt | 19th-century American poet |
| Salomėja Nėris | Salomėja Bučinskaitė-Bučienė | |
| Salonina | Francesca Anna Canfield | Early 19th-century American linguist, poet, translator |
| Samantha Chase | Eileen Buckholtz and Ruth Glick | 20th-century American romance novelists |
| Samantha Spriggins | Helen Maud Merrill | 19th-century American litterateur and poet |
| Samuel Bjørk | Frode Sander Øien | Norwegian novelist, playwright and singer-songwriter |
| Sannois | Camille Saint-Saëns | |
| Sans Souci | Nelly Nichol Marshall | 19th-century American "southland" author |
| Sapper | H. C. McNeile | |
| Sapphire | Ramona Lofton | 21st-century African-American poet and author |
| Sadie Sensible | Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney | also "Julia", "Minnie May," "Frank Fisher," "Minister's Wife", "Rev. Peter Benson's Daughter"; American educator, poet |
| Saturn | Eva Best | American writer, newspaper editor, musical composer |
| Shahriar | Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar | Iranian poet, writing in Persian and Azerbaijani |
| Selene | Hester Dorsey Richardson | American author, genealogist, clubwoman |
| Shawn Haigins | Ashwin Sanghi | Indian writer of historical fiction thrillers including The Rozabal Line and Chanakya's Chant (Shawn Haigins is an anagram of Ashwin Sanghi) |
| Sidney Sheldon | Sidney Schechtel | Novelist and television producer; created I Dream of Jeannie television series |
| Silence Dogood | Benjamin Franklin | Used this pen name to get his work published |
| Sister Nivedita | Margaret Elizabeth Noble | |
| Sjón | Sigurjón Birgir Sigurðsson | Icelandic novelist, poet, lyricist |
| Somebody, M.D.C. &c. &c. &c. | John Neal | Keep Cool was published under this pseudonym. "M.D.C." stands for "Member of the Delphian Club" |
| Sonya Koshkina | Ksenia Mykytivna Vasilenko | Ukrainian journalist, editor-in-chief |
| Seth | Gregory Gallant | 20th-century Canadian cartoonist |
| Stan Lee | Stanley Martin Lieber | Comic book pioneer |
| Stanley Norris | Lurana W. Sheldon | American novelist, poet, lecturer, editor |
| Steele Rudd | Arthur Hoey Davis | |
| Stefan Brockhoff | Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin | |
| Stein Riverton | Sven Elvestad | Born as Kristoffer Elvestad Svendsen |
| Stella | Elizabeth Jessup Eames | 19th-century American writer |
| Stendhal | Marie-Henri Beyle | 19th-century French writer |
| Stephen Bury | Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George | |
| Student | William Sealy Gosset | Discoverer of Student's t-distribution in statistics |
| Sue Denim | Dav Pilkey | Writer and illustrator of the Captain Underpants children's book series, when author of the Dumb Bunnies books (Sue Denim is a play on the word pseudonym) |
| Sue Smith | Rosa Miller Avery | 19th-century American abolitionist, reformer, suffragist, writers (also used men's names as pseudonyms) |
| Sujatha | S. Rangarajan | 20th-century Indian writer, engineer/scientist |
| Sui Sin Far | Edith Maude Eaton | |

## T

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| T. H. Lain | Philip Athans and Bruce Cordell | Collective pseudonym used by nine separate authors writing Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons novels |
| T. Kingfisher | Ursula Vernon | |
| T. M. Maple | Jim Burke | | - | Ted L. Nancy | Barry Marder and Bruce Baum | Authors of the Letters from a Nut series |
| Temple Oliver | Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith | American poet and romanticist |
| Tess Marlowe | Louise Titchener and Ruth Glick | 20th-century American romance novelists |
| Theodosia | Anne Steele | English hymnwriter, essayist |
| Thoinot Arbeau | Jehan Tabourot | |
| Tiger Lily | Lillie Devereux Blake | American suffragist, reformer, writer |
| Timothy Shy | D. B. Wyndham Lewis | 20th-century British poet and author, collaborated with Ronald Searle on The Terror of St Trinian's |
| Tite Kubo | Noriaki Kubo | Manga artist of Bleach |
| Tom Tomorrow | Dan Perkins | 20th-century editorial cartoonist |
| Toofie Lauder | Maria Elise Turner Lauder | 19th-century Canadian teacher, linguist, author |
| Tori Carrington | Tony Karayianni and Lori Schlachter Karayianni | American husband and wife romance novelists |
| Trebor Ohl | Cora Stuart Wheeler | 19th-century American poet, author |
| Trevanian | Rodney William Whitaker | 20th-century American spy novelist |
| Tristan Tzara | Sami Rosenstock | |
| Tsugumi Ohba | unknown | Manga writer, author of Death Note and Bakuman |
| Tudor Arghezi | Ion N. Theodorescu | 20th-century Romanian poet and children's author |

## U

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Uanhenga Xitu | Agostinho André Mendes de Carvalho | |
| Umberto Saba | Umberto Poli | |

## V

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Uriah Fuller | Martin Gardner | Wrote Confessions of a Psychic |
| Väinö Stenberg | Algot Untola | 20th-century Finnish author |
| Vazha | Luka Razikashvili | |
| Vera Haij | Tove Jansson | Author of the picture book Sara och Pelle och näckens bläckfiskar |
| Véra Tsaritsyn | Gertrude Elizabeth Blood | Journalist, author, playwright, and editor |
| Vercors | Jean Bruller | |
| Vernon Sullivan | Boris Vian | |
| Víctor Català | Caterina Albert | Author of Solitud (Solitude) (1905) |
| Victoria Lucas | Sylvia Plath | Poet and author of The Bell Jar |
| Vladimir Sirin | Vladimir Nabokov | 20th-century novelist; used this name on early works |
| Viola | Fanny Murdaugh Downing | 19th-century American author, poet |
| Viola | Laura M. Hawley Thurston | 19th-century American poet, teacher |
| Voltaire | François-Marie Arouet | 18th-century French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher |

## W

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Walter Ericson | Howard Fast | American novelist |
| W. A. C. Q. | Anna Cabot Quincy Waterston | 19th-century American poet, novelist, hymnist, diarist |
| W. N. P. Barbellion | Bruce Frederick Cummings | 20th-century diarist |
| Walter | Henry Spencer Ashbee | 19th-century book collector, writer, bibliographer, and suspected author of My Secret Life, the sexual memoirs of a Victorian era gentleman |
| Wang Shiwei (王實味) | Wang Sidao (王思禱) | 20th-century Chinese journalist and literary writer |
| William Lee | William S. Burroughs | American novelist, short story writer, essayist and spoken word performer |
| William Penn | Jeremiah Evarts | 19th-century activist against Indian removal |
| Willibald Alexis | Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring | |
| Willice Wharton | Eve Brodlique | British-born Canadian/American author, journalist |
| Winnie Woodbine | Esther Saville Allen | 19th-century American author |
| Winnie Rover | Mary Catherine Chase | 19th-century American Catholic nun and writer |
| Woody Allen | Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) | American film director, writer, actor, and comedian |

## X

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## Y

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Y. L. E. | Mary Whitwell Hale | 19th-century American teacher, hymnwriter |
| Yevgeny Petrov | Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev | |
| Yukio Mishima | Kimitake Hiraoka | 20th-century Japanese novelist, essayist, and playwright |
| Yukon Bill | Kate Simpson Hayes | Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet |

## Z

| Pen name | Real name | Details |
| Zeleta | Helen Field Comstock | American poet, philanthropist |
| Zena Clifton | Lillian Rozell Messenger | American poet |
| Zig | Eliza Archard Conner | American journalist, lecturer, feminist |