Blue Jeans is the pseudonym chosen for Francisco Fernández de Paula's youth novel series. "Paco Fernández was not very commercial."
When we talk about writers with a pseudonym, classic and modern authors come to mind, from Fernán Caballero to Blue Jeans passing through Pablo Neruda. Each has or had their own motives, from making their name more commercial, being able to post in the case of women in the past, family reasons and many others.
Here we are going to see some examples of writers who used a female pseudonym, female writers posing as men y others simply changed their name for the most diverse reasons. This list is by no means exhaustive, it is intended to collect examples of the reasons that drive a writer to use pseudonyms.
Pablo Neruda
Real name Ricardo Eliecer Neftali Reyes Basoalto, the name was changed to publish in order to don't embarrass your father for having a poet son.
George Orwell:
With the same reason as the previous one, he changed his real name Eric Arthur Blair by George Orwell so as not to disturb his parents with his novel No white in Paris and London, where he recounts his experience living on the street, as a homeless person.
JK Rowling:
The creator of the famous Harry Potter, camouflaged her real name Joanne, in order to look like a man, for publishing imposition, which considered that male teens would not buy books written by a womanthat incomprehensible is that, after being a world-famous writer, I would once again choose a male pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, for his crime novel saga. The reasons he has given is that he wanted to reach readers without being preceded by his fame, although that does not clarify the reason for the male pseudonym.
Jill sanderson
The author of romantic novels world famous is actually a man: Roger sanderson. Business reasons. The romance novel sells more if it has a woman's name.
Blue jeans
Business reasons. As the author himself says:
"Paco Fernández was not very commercial."
EL James
The creator of the hit series 50 Shades of Gray is actually called Erika leonard and also adopts a fuzzy pseudonym, indicating a male author by business reasons.
Magnus Flyte:
Again are the business reasons those who carry Christina Lynch and Meg Howrey to choose his pseudonym, also masculine and, the truth, chosen with great success because it attracts the attention of the readers.
Amelia drake
Behind this feminine pseudonym are Pierdomenico Baccalario and Davide Morosinotto, youth novel writers of a fantastic cut, the saga The Academy. The book written with four hands is The academy, which has already been published for two volumes and where the protagonist is an orphan girl called Twelve. Both of them writers are known and it is the first time they have published under a pseudonym.
Business reasons and a test of entering a new genre without compromising your personal brand.
Frankestein was published anonymously so as not to reveal that its author was a woman: Mary Shelley.
JT Leroy
A more extensive description deserves this recent case, in which a pseudonym for business reasons: The New York society of the early twentieth century took six years to discover that after the young Jeremiah Terminator Leroy, a celebrity after the publication of Sarah, supposedly autobiographical novel and where drug addiction and prostitution were the main spurs for the reader, he was actually Laura Albert. In this case the pseudonym was changed to characterization as JT Leroy rubbed shoulders with great personalities in New York. Until 2005 it was not known that it was actually a woman dressed as a man, but it was not even the author herself who characterized the young tormented writer if not his sister-in-law, Savannah Knopp.
Laura Albert's motive? She was convinced that no one would want to read the books of a forty-something.
Yasmina Khadra
It is the pseudonym of Mohammed Moulessehoul, a writer, member of the Algerian army who decided to use a pseudonym to avoid retaliation. The author said that pretended honor the Algerian woman for the courage and the hope they showed in the face of the many conflicts they suffered in a society as restrictive as the Algerian one.
Harper Lee
The author Kill a Mockingbird, was the writer, Nelle Harper Lee. Business reasons and extreme shyness are the reasons why he hid his name, although never who he was.
SK Tremayne
Behind a pseudonym that you want indicate woman's name, is the writer Sean Thomas Knox, also for business reasons, in a publishing market in which women are beginning to have more and more weight.
Lisbeth Werner
Business motives once again in this feminine pseudonym for the authors of the Puck youth series aimed primarily at young female audiences: Carlo Andersen and Knud Meister.
Jessica stirling
The real name of the writer of a saga of romantic books is Hugh C.Rae. The funny thing about this case is that even when won of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, kept his real name a secret.
George Elliot:
Mary ann evans chose the pseudonym George Eliot to get them to take his work seriously, that they would not consider her a romantic author because she is a woman. Also for avoid scandal about his relationship with a married man with whom he was until his death.
Fernan knight
Writer's pseudonym Cecilia Böhl De Faber and Larrea, that after being brought up in the love of literature for its father, when he decides to dedicate himself to writing, he only finds rechazo.
"He would tear up the texts in front of my face, and tell me not to dedicate myself to tasks typical of the male sex"
Supported by her mother, decides to become a professional writer, under a pseudonym that hides her identity.
Others:
Other well-known examples of this type of pseudonyms out of necessity, on which a lot has already been written and it is not worth insisting given the amount of material available on the matter, are those of other of that like the previous two, your only option to see his published works was to make them look like they were written by a man with were the sisters Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë who published as Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell respectively, after the poet robert southey respond to Charlotte when she presented her work to her,
"Literature cannot be a matter of a woman's life, and it shouldn't be that way."
As well the case of Frankenstein, which was published in the anonymous so as not to reveal that its author was a woman, Mary Shelley. They all assumed that the author of the novel was Percey B Shelley, her husband. At that time female writers were a minority and were despised by critics, writers and readers if they addressed any genre other than romantic.