Literary Lions Mask Their Roar // Pseudonyms Add Touch of Mystery To New Thrillers

Chicago Sun-Times | August 12, 1992| | Copyright

To spend the long, lonely hours required to write a novel and then to publish it under a pseudonym seems a little like training to run a marathon and then breaking the tape wearing a bag over your head.

But many people do write anonymously and have for millenia. In fact, some pseudonyms are much more famous than the real names they front: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), George Orwell (Eric Blair) and George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), to name a few.

The reasons are various. In societies where writing is considered subversive, writers may hide behind fictitious ...

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