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Do you know the real name of George Orwell, Voltaire, or Lewis Carroll? And do you know they were actually pen names? The visual doesn’t only list the authors who wrote under a pseudonym but also provides reasons why they did it. And there are as many reasons as authors: political, personal, or promotional.
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was not only a writer but also a mathematician. He used a pen name to distinguish between his literature and mathematics works.
The name “Voltaire” is an anagram of “Arovet Li” the Latinized spelling of François-Marie Arouet’s surname. The famous French writer and philosopher decided to use the pseudonym to stop being confused with a poet Adenes le Roi.
And “Robert Galbraith” is not a pen name of J.K. Rowling, because J.K. Rowling is already a pen name.
