noms de plume
Authors' assumed names
Noms de plume is the plural of nom de plume, a pen name or pseudonym used by a writer: Mark Twain and George Orwell are among the most famous noms de plume in literary history.
The phrase is French for "pen names," though ironically it was coined by English speakers—the French themselves say nom de guerre.
- heteronymSame spelling, different sound
- aliasAdopted false name
- monikerInformal designation for someone
- alter egoA secondary persona
- double lifeSecret parallel identity
pseudonym · persona · ghostwriting · secret identity · George Eliot · masked identity · fictional identity · sobriquet · Mark Twain · Samuel Clemens · Voltaire · byname · double identity · gender disguise · epithet · privacy protection · freedom of expression · call sign
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Actual given identity
birth names · legal name · legal names · birth name · given names
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Identity assigned at delivery
given name · legal name · baptismal name · family name · maiden name
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