By Any Another Name: Writers and their Pseudonyms

A pseudonym (also known as a “pen name" or nom de plume) can be utilized by a writer to provide a new life story, an artistic reboot, an experiment for a new book form, or it can permit an author to reach a new audience.
Many famous writers used pseudonyms either at the beginning of their career or sometime after they were established to write a different genre or explore a new style. Some famous pseudonyms include:

• Stephen King — Richard Bachman
• Anne Rice — Anne Rampling
• Charlotte Bronte — Currer Bell
• Sylvia Plath — Victoria Lucas
• Eric Arthur Blair — George Orwell
• François-Marie Arouet — Voltaire
• Charles Lutwidge Dodson — Lewis Carroll
• William Sydney Porter — O. Henry
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens –Mark Twain
• Theodore Seuss Geisel — Dr. Seuss
• Mary Ann Evans — George Eliot
• David John Moore Cornwell — John Le Carré