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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“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman “other” or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”
—Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)