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Zane hit the main ones: desire for personal privacy the other primary reason I know is marketing - same as actors, some authors will adopt snazzier-sounding names to sound good on the bookshelf. B...
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2019-12-12T20:05:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T01:41:59Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
[Zane hit the main ones](https://writers.stackexchange.com/questions/3117/why-do-writers-use-pseudonyms/3122#3122): **desire for personal privacy** the other primary reason I know is **marketing** - same as actors, some authors will adopt snazzier-sounding names to sound good on the bookshelf. Beyond that, you've got a lot of exceptional cases - [Joe Hill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hill_%28writer%29) is a pen name to avoid the otherwise-painfully-blatant connection to his father; [Alice Bradley Sheldon](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tiptree,_Jr) probably falls under "privacy" but in a very extreme manner, etc. etc.
#1: Imported from external source
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2011-06-18T19:26:19Z (over 13 years ago)
Original score: 7