Nom de Plume - A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms

MaryAnne Evans. Charles Dodgson. Eric Blair. William Sydney Porter. Or, as they aremore commonly remembered, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and O.Henry. For these writers and many others, from Mark Twain to Stan Lee to RobertJordan, the invocation of a nom de plume has been an essential part inthe creation of an authorial identity. Now, in a captivating series ofbiographical snapshots exploring the lives of famous authors and their pennames, author Carmela Ciuraru delivers a unique literaryhistory and a penetrating examination of identity, creativity, andself-creation, revisiting the enduring question--what''s in a name?>

About the author

Carmela Ciuraru is the author of Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms, and her anthologies include First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them and Solitude Poems. She is a member of PEN American and the National Book Critics Circle, and she has been interviewed on The Today Show and by newspapers and radio stations internationally. She lives in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Carmela Ciuraru
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.05.2012
• EAN: 9780061735271
• ISBN: 978-0-06-173527-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Series: P.S.
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; FICTION: Women, LITERARY CRITICISM: Books & Reading, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Reference, REFERENCE: Trivia, LITERARY CRITICISM: General, COMPUTERS: Reference