{"id":468,"date":"2010-07-01T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/?p=468"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:07:07","slug":"real-names-of-famous-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/real-names-of-famous-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Real names of famous writers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abigail Van Buren<\/a> (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abram Tertz<\/a> (Andrei Sinyavsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acton Bell<\/a> (Anne Bront)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alain-Fournier<\/a> (Henri Alban-Fournier)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alan Smithee<\/a> (name sometimes used by American film directors)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alberto Moravia<\/a> (Alberto Pincherle)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Andrew Macdonald (William Luther Pierce)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ann Landers<\/a> (Esther “Eppie” Pauline Friedman Lederer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alcofribas Nasier<\/a> (Franois Rabelais)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Barks (Charlie Christensen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anatole France<\/a> (Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Rice<\/a> (Howard Allen O’Brien)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
The Vampire Chronicles Collection – Anne Rice
Available on Amazon<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Anne Knish<\/a> (Arthur Davison Ficke)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arkon Daraul<\/a> (likely Idries Shah<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashida Kim<\/a> (Radford William Davis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seiko Legru (Janwillem van de Wetering)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbara Michaels<\/a> (Barbara Mertz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blaise Cendrars<\/a> (Frdric Louis Sauser)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Hart<\/a> (Al Trace|Albert J. Trace)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris Akunin<\/a> (Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boz<\/a> (Charles Dickens)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Branislav Nusic’<\/a> (Ben Akiba)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cherry Wilder<\/a> (Cherry Barbara Grimm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cherubina de Gabriak<\/a> (Elisaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Hunter<\/a> (Radford William Davis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clem Watts<\/a> ([Albert J. Trace)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cordwainer Smith<\/a> (Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currer Bell<\/a> (Charlotte Bront)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curzio Malaparte<\/a> (Kurt Erich Suckert)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Defoe<\/a> (Daniel Foe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniil Kharms<\/a> (Daniil Ivanovich Yuvachev)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danuta de Rhodes (Dan Rhodes<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Axton<\/a> (Dean Koontz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Michaels<\/a> (Raymond Benson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dazai Osamu<\/a> (Shuji Tsushima)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Abby<\/a> (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Spaulding<\/a> ([Ray Bradbury])<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Seuss<\/a> (Theodore Geisel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edith Van Dyne<\/a> (L. Frank Baum)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edogawa Rampo<\/a> (Hirai Taro-)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edward Pygge<\/a> (Ian Hamilton, Clive James, Russell Davies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edwin Caskoden<\/a> (Charles Major)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elia<\/a> (Charles Lamb)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Peters<\/a> (Barbara Mertz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellis Bell<\/a> (Emily Bront)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellis Peters<\/a> (Edith Pargeter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsa Triolet<\/a> (Elsa Kagan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emanuel Morgan<\/a> (Witter Bynner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erich Maria Remarque<\/a> (Erich Paul Remark)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flann O’Brien<\/a> (Brian O’Nolan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Francis Bennett<\/a> (Edwin Keppel Bennett)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franoise Sagan<\/a> (Franoise Quoirez)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Eliot<\/a> (Mary Ann Evans)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"George<\/a>
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) painting by Fran\u00e7ois D’Albert Durade<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

George Orwell<\/a> (Eric Arthur Blair)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Sand<\/a> (Amandine Dupin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Georges Courteline<\/a> (Georges Victor Marcel Moinaux<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Lippincott<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guillaume Apollinaire<\/a> (Wilhelm A. V. Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

H.N. Turtletaub<\/a> (Harry Turtledove)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard Pan<\/a> (Geraldine Bonner)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harold Robbins<\/a> (Harold Rubin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Havank<\/a> (Hans van der Kallen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herg<\/a> (Georges Remi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Conway<\/a> (Frederick John Fargus)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilya Ilf<\/a> (Ilya Arnoldovich Faynzilberg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irwin Shaw<\/a> (Irwin Shamforoff)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italo Svevo<\/a> (Ettore Schmitz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J. K. Rowling<\/a> (Joanne Rowling)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Dillinger (James Robert Baker<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Tiptree, Jr<\/a> (Alice Sheldon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jay Livingston<\/a> (Jacob Harold Levison)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Paul<\/a> (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Plaidy<\/a> (Eleanor Hibbert)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johann Joachim Sautscheck<\/a> (Roman Turovsky-Savchuk<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Beynon<\/a> (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Christopher<\/a> (Samuel Youd)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John le Carre<\/a> (David John Moore Cornwell)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Wyndham<\/a> (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Conrad<\/a> (Jzef Teodor Na?e;cz Konrad Korzeniowski)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Korney Chukovsky<\/a> (Nikolay Vasilyevich Korneychukov)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keno<\/a> (Eric Killinger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lemony Snicket<\/a> (Daniel Handler)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lewis Carroll<\/a> (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lorenzo da Ponte<\/a> (Emmanuele Conegliano )<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Louis-Ferdinand Cline<\/a> (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Brandis<\/a> (Nikolai von Michalewsky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Twain<\/a> (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Westmacott<\/a> (Agatha Christie)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Arlen<\/a> (Dikran Kuyumjian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Innes<\/a> (J. I. M. Stewart)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Molire<\/a> (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multatuli<\/a> (Eduard Douwes Dekker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray Leinster<\/a> (Will F. Jenkins)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nancy Boyd<\/a> (Edna St. Vincent Millay)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natsume Soseki<\/a> (Natsume Kinnosuke)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nisa<\/a> (Nicola Salerno), Italian lyricist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas Bourbaki<\/a> (a group of 20th-century mathematicians)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novalis<\/a> (Friedrich Leopold)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O. Henry<\/a> (William Sydney Porter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogdred Weary<\/a> (Edward Gorey)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Onoto Watanna<\/a> (Winnifred Eaton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Annixter (Howard Allison Sturtzel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Celan<\/a> (Paul Antschel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Ray<\/a> (Jean Raymond Marie de Kremer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauline Rage<\/a> (Anne Desclos)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Gast<\/a> (Heinrich Kselitz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierre Loti<\/a> (Louis Marie Julien Viaud)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piers Anthony<\/a> (Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillip Guston<\/a> (Phillip Goldstein)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publius <\/a>(Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay,  when writing The Federalist Papers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q (Arthur Quiller-Couch<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Bachman<\/a> (Stephen King)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard Leander<\/a> (Richard von Volkmann)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Jordan<\/a> (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Markham<\/a> (Kingsley Amis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romain Gary<\/a> (Romain Kacew)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosemary Edghill<\/a> (eluki bes shahar)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint-John Perse<\/a> (Alexis Saint-Lger Lger)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saki<\/a> (Hector Hugh Munro)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sapper<\/a> (H. C. McNeile)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silence Dogood<\/a> (Benjamin Franklin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister Nivedita<\/a> (Margaret Elizabeth Noble)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stash Cairo (Craig Hamilton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan Brockhoff<\/a> (Dieter Cunz, Richard Plant, Oskar Seidlin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steele Rudd<\/a> (Arthur Hoey Davis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student<\/a> (William Sealey Gosset, discoverer of Student’s t-distribution)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sui Sin Far<\/a> (Edith Maude Eaton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fredman (Karl Mikael Bellman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoinot Arbeau<\/a> (Jehan Tabourot)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TM Maple<\/a> (Jim Burke)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toni Morrison<\/a> (Chloe Anthony Wofford)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vercors<\/a> (Jean Bruller)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vernon Sullivan<\/a> (Boris Vian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Umberto Saba<\/a> (Umberto Poli)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voltaire<\/a> (Franois-Marie Arouet)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walter<\/a> (Henry Spencer Ashbee)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willibald Alexis<\/a> (Georg Wilhelm Heinrich Haring)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woody Allen<\/a> (Allen Stewart Konigsberg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yevegny Petrov (Yevgeniy Petrovich Kataev)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yukio Mishima<\/a> (Kimitake Hiraoka)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also see: Real names of famous artists<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HT: Wikipedia<\/a>. Names link to Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details). Wikipedia<\/a>\u00ae is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Abhishek Kumar Yadav (Annu) Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman Phillips) Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) Acton Bell (Anne Bront) Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[162,256],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-names","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/lists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}