Nom de plume
Subtitle: a (secret) history of pseudonyms
By: Carmela Ciuraru
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780061735264
Subjects: Anonyms and pseudonyms; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Brontes and Currer, Acton, and Ellis Bell (1816-1855); title: George Sand and Aurore Dupin (1804-1876); title: George Eliot and Marian Evans (1819-1880); title: Lewis Carroll and Charles Dodgson (1832-1898); title: Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens (1835-1910); title: O. Henry and William Sydney Porter (1862-1910); title: Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms (1888-1935); title: George Orwell and Eric Blair (1903-1950); title: Isak Dinesen and Karen Blixen (1885-1962); title: Sylvia Plath and Victoria Lucas (1932-1963); title: Henry Green and Henry Yorke (1905-1973); title: Romain Gary and Emile Ajar (1914-1980); title: James Tiptree, Jr. and Alice Sheldon (1915-1987); title: Georges Simenon and Christian Brulls, et al. (1903-1989); title: Patricia Highsmith and Claire Morgan (1921-1995); title: Pauline Reage and Anne Desclos (1907-1998).