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Written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge (a pen name for the anonymous author), Demon Slayer debuted in 2016 in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump, a manga magazine.
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Then, text appears, responding to Lubelfeld’s question as if its writer is Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
The Long Walk, even by Stephen King standards, is quite old, written in 1979 under King’s pen name at the time, Richard Bachman.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
His third and current pen name is evidence of him fulfilling that debt to himself.
—Elise Brisco, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2025
Then, text appears, responding to Lubelfeld’s question as if its writer is Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain.
—Joseph States, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pen name
Noun
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Published under the nom de plume Jonathan Gash, Lovejoy is a set of 24 books from Dr John Grant.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2026
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Eduard Limonov then—an appropriate nom de plume for a dissident poet arriving in 1974 New York, a metropolis of graffiti and project fires, of blackouts and serial killers.—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
Noun
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His heroes aren’t athletes or movie stars but anonymous Twitter accounts—anime avatars and pseudonyms with cryptic bios—whose followers track their trades with devotional intensity.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
17 Mar. 2026
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The creator, who used a pseudonym, helpfully carved these guidelines on the stones in eight different languages.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
17 Mar. 2026
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