pen name

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Chisholm read the whole book, published under the pen name Tori Woods, and found a reasonable reader would find it "undeniably offensive".

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2026

She published her first newspaper piece that same year, and adopted the alliterative pen name.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026

Another famous cartoon - he signed them Abu, after his pen name - from that time shows a man asking another: "What do you think of editors who are more loyal than the censor?"

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025

The author is a federal civil servant who has been granted the use of a pen name to protect them and their family from reprisals.

From Slate • Jan. 29, 2025

He can have another name given to him when he comes of age, a nickname from his friends, and if he is a poet, he can have a pen name.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep