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It only took us a century and a half, but we may have finally learned the real source of Samuel Clemens' ubiquitously recognizable nom de plume: he stole it from a humor journal so lame...
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 ...
A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.
28 lip 2011 · A pen name or “nom de plume” is a pseudonym adopted by an author for their written work.
19 cze 2018 · Samuel Langhorne Clemens claimed he got his nom de plume from a riverboat captain. It's more likely he got it in a saloon.
2 lut 2018 · Real Name: Samuel Clemens While scholars have never been clear about the origin of Clemens’s pseudonym, the most recent investigations suggest that the name Mark Twain came from a short-lived,...
2 lis 2023 · Also called a nom de plume, literary double, or pseudonym, a writer’s pen name is either a wholly made-up moniker or a variant of a person’s real name. Some writers also use the names of distant relatives or ancestors.
