A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. The author's name may be known only to the publisher, or may come to be common knowledge.
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“Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)