“Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms” (Harper/HarperCollins), by Carmela Ciuraru: In the annals of literature, pen names have long created as much intrigue about the authors as the pieces ...

Imagine this: You are on the second-to-last page of Carmela Ciuraru's "Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms" and wishing you weren't because this book is such great fun when what should ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Even before a page of a story is turned, a fiction may already have been told. The nom de plume or ...

In the annals of literature, pen names have long created as much intrigue about the authors as the pieces they write. Carmela Ciuraru’s “Nom de Plume” deftly tells the stories of some of literature’s ...

“The obvious trouble with pen names … even with the most inspired and impressive ones, was that they somehow failed to convey truly the full extent of one’s literary genius,” said Romain Gary, the ...

In the annals of literature, pen names have long created as much intrigue about the authors as the pieces they write. Carmela Ciuraru's "Nom de Plume" deftly tells the stories of some of literature's ...