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Pen Name's True Identity

written by: Sia
 
Authors sometimes choose to conceal their true personality behind a different name. I will give you the pen name and see if you can guess their real name.

Question 1:


After achieving success with his horror stories, this writer called himself Richard Bachman because he wanted to see if his novels would sell without his already famous name on them.
John Bingham Morton
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Bruce Frederick Cummings
Stephen King

Question 2:


Lewis Carroll conceived "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" as nursery tales for the daughter of a friend.
D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Sue Denim
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Eugène Grindel

Question 3:


Paul Eluard was a major exponent of surrealism. Many of his poems reflect the hardship after his separation with his first wife Gala, who left him for Salvador Dali.
Harry Hart Frank
Lucy Beatrice Malleson
Eugène Grindel
Jacques Anatole François Thibault

Question 4:


Besides a poet, Pablo Neruda was also a diplomat and a Communist leader. He changed his original name because he didn't want his father to find out he was a poet.
Eric Arthur Blair
Hector Hugh Munro
Louis Cha
Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto

Question 5:


Anatole France was probably the most famous French man of letters of his time. In 1921 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Jacques Anatole Thibault
John Dickson Carr
William Sidney Porter

Question 6:


Stendhal hated his father so he took the first opportunity to leave for Paris, where he became a lieutenant in Napoleon’s army. He began his literary career after the fall of Napoleon in 1814.
Marie Henri Beyle
Johann Kaspar Schmidt
Dan Perkins
Paul M. A. Linebarger

Question 7:


Moliere became famous as the father of French high comedy. He coined the phrase "castigat ridendo mores" (to criticise customs through humour) which is sometimes mistaken for a genuine Latin proverb.
Jean Baptiste Poquelin
James Oliver Rigney, Jr.
Gérard Labrunie
Georges Remi

Question 8:


Saki was a master of short stories. It is said that his pen name could be a reference to a monkey with the same name.
Natsume Kinnosuke
Theodore Seuss Geisel
Frederic Dannay
Hector Hugh Munro

Question 9:


O. Henry was working as a bank teller when he was sent to jail for embezzlement. He spent 3 years in jail where he started writing his short stories.
Harry Hart Frank
Stanley Martin Lieber
Georges Remi
William Sydney Porter

Question 10:


Both in the year when Mark Twain was born and the year when he died, the Halleys Comet passed by Earth.
-Mark borrowed his pseudonym from Mississippi riverboat terminology, where calling “mark twain� marked safe water.
Charles Farrar Browne
Johann Kaspar Schmidt
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Don Novello

 
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