{"id":2092,"date":"2013-01-04T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2013-01-04T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T15:34:50","slug":"by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"By Any Other Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061735272\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=litquotes-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0061735272\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2093\" style=\"margin: 0px 30px 30px 0px;\" alt=\"Nom De Plume\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/penname.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/penname.jpg 106w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/penname-66x100.jpg 66w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><\/a>We all know that Samuel Clemens wrote under\u00a0 the name of Mark Twain and that George Eliot was really Marian Evans.\u00a0 But did you ever wonder about the back-story? In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061735272\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=litquotes-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0061735272\" target=\"_blank\">Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms<\/a><\/em> Carmela Ciuraru examines this issue.\u00a0\u00a0The book looks at the lives of of authors who used pen names.\u00a0\u00a0 In addition to\u00a0Twain and Eliot, there are chapters on the Bronte sisters, Lewis Carroll, O. Henry, George Orwell and others.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame. Part detective story, part expos\u00e9, part literary history, <em>Nom de Plume<\/em> is an absorbing psychological meditation on identity and creativity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061735272\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=litquotes-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0061735272\" target=\"_blank\">Learn More &#8211; Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=litquotes-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0061735272\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that Samuel Clemens wrote under\u00a0 the name of Mark Twain and that George Eliot was really Marian Evans.\u00a0 But did you ever wonder about the back-story? In Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms Carmela Ciuraru <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[297,133,322,463,261,137,393],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-anne-bronte","tag-charlotte-bronte","tag-emily-bronte","tag-george-orwell","tag-lewis-carroll","tag-mark-twain","tag-o-henry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}