AuntShecky
08-14-2008, 04:24 PM
The topic for this week's Auntie Quiz ("zzz") is: pseudonyms, pen names, and aliases. The idea is to look at the more familiar name of the writer and then guess his or her pen name or real name, whatever the case may be.
(By the bye, I wouldn't mind if the LitNetters kept this thread going with more examples or comments upon the individual writers or the use of pseudonyms in general.)
1. George Orwell
2. Isak Dinesen
3. O. Henry
4. Charles Dickens
5. George Eliot
6. Mark Twain
7. Washington Irving
8. George Sand
9. Voltaire
10. Ellery Queen
11. Findley Peter Dunne
12. Artemis Ward
13. Saki
14. Joseph Conrad
15. Charles Lamb[/FONT]
Answers
1. Eric Arthur Blair 2. Baroness Karen Dinesen Blixen 3. William Sydney (or "Sidney") Porter 4. Boz
5. Mary Ann Evans 6. Samuel L. Clemens 7. Dietrich Knickerbocker 8. Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin
9. Francois Marie Arouet 10. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee 11. Mr. Dooley
12. Charles Farrar Browne 13. H.H. Munro 14. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski 15. Elia
(By the bye, I wouldn't mind if the LitNetters kept this thread going with more examples or comments upon the individual writers or the use of pseudonyms in general.)
1. George Orwell
2. Isak Dinesen
3. O. Henry
4. Charles Dickens
5. George Eliot
6. Mark Twain
7. Washington Irving
8. George Sand
9. Voltaire
10. Ellery Queen
11. Findley Peter Dunne
12. Artemis Ward
13. Saki
14. Joseph Conrad
15. Charles Lamb[/FONT]
Answers
1. Eric Arthur Blair 2. Baroness Karen Dinesen Blixen 3. William Sydney (or "Sidney") Porter 4. Boz
5. Mary Ann Evans 6. Samuel L. Clemens 7. Dietrich Knickerbocker 8. Amandine Lucie Aurore Dupin
9. Francois Marie Arouet 10. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee 11. Mr. Dooley
12. Charles Farrar Browne 13. H.H. Munro 14. Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski 15. Elia