Here's a list of 40 renowned authors along with their pen names and real names:
Classic Literature
| Pen Name |
Real Name |
| Mark Twain |
Samuel Langhorne Clemens |
| George Eliot |
Mary Ann Evans |
| Lewis Carroll |
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson |
| Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell |
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë |
| George Orwell |
Eric Arthur Blair |
| O. Henry |
William Sydney Porter |
| Voltaire |
François-Marie Arouet |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Silence Dogood, Anthony Afterwit, Poor Richard |
Modern and Contemporary Literature
| Pen Name |
Real Name |
| J.K. Rowling |
Joanne Kathleen Rowling |
| Stephen King |
Richard Bachman |
| Robert Galbraith |
J.K. Rowling |
| Sophie Kinsella |
Madeleine Wickham |
| Elena Ferrante |
Unknown |
| Dr. Seuss |
Theodor Seuss Geisel |
| Anne Rice |
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien |
| Samuel Beckett |
Anthony Burgess |
| George Sand |
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin |
| C.S. Lewis |
Clive Staples Lewis |
| P.G. Wodehouse |
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse |
| Agatha Christie |
Mary Agatha Miller |
Other Notable Authors
| Pen Name |
Real Name |
| Andre Norton |
Alice Mary Norton |
| Stan Lee |
Stanley Martin Lieber |
| Bell Hooks |
Gloria Jean Watkins |
| Mo Yan |
Guan Moye |
| Kurt Vonnegut |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| Harper Lee |
Nelle Harper Lee |
| Truman Capote |
Truman Streckfus Persons |
| Vladimir Nabokov |
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov |
| Ray Bradbury |
Ray Douglas Bradbury |
| Aldous Huxley |
Aldous Leonard Huxley |
| Jack London |
John Griffith London |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Ernest Miller Hemingway |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald |
| William Faulkner |
William Cuthbert Faulkner |
| James Joyce |
James Augustine Joyce |
| Virginia Woolf |
Adeline Virginia Stephen |
| D.H. Lawrence |
David Herbert Lawrence |
| Joseph Conrad |
Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski |
| Henry James |
Henry James Jr. |
| Edith Wharton |
Edith Newbold Jones |
