Pen Names

Literature

Hard

· Average score: 80.3

Originally published May 14, 2026

Literature

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Writers adopt pen names for privacy, marketing, reinvention, prejudice, genre expectations, or simply because the name on the book sounds better than the one on the birth certificate.

The answers to this rebus puzzle are pen names or pseudonyms used by notable writers.

Examples: Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Dr. Seuss

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