How to Use pen name in a Sentence

pen name

noun

• This is the reason that a lot of us choose to write under pen names.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• Many of these works were signed with a pen name: Ben Hoffman.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 13 June 2022
• But Kiwi Maple Sapphire makes for a heck of a pen name.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2019
• Bud Billiken, the pen name of the paper’s youth columnist.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2023
• Fomin, a 40-year-old whose pen name was Vladlen Tatarsky, was born in eastern Ukraine.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• The show is based on a series of books written by vet Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 8 Jan. 2022
• The cookie clue hinted to Rourke's pen name, Eddie Cook.
  — Leah Rocketto, Woman's Day, 1 Oct. 2020
• Mr Kinkonda, who goes by his pen name of Chéri Chérin, seems as worn down as the surroundings.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• His most famous pen name, W.E.B. Griffin, arose in the early 1980s.
  — Kelly Kazek, AL.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• William Bowery—a pen name that is all but confirmed to be Joe Alwyn—is a cowriter on this track.
  — Ana Escalante, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2022
• Myrtle’s pen name was Olive Green for cookbooks and best-sellers.
  — Brenda Yenke, cleveland, 5 May 2022
• Drew Cloud’ was a pen name that represented a group of us writing these posts.
  — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2018
• Mark Hamilton is his pen name, and his real name is Wallace Ward, who is 64 and lives in Nevada.
  — Dallas News, 2 Mar. 2023
• Hank Early is the pen name of author John Mantooth, listed above.
  — Kelly Kazek | [e-mail], al, 5 Oct. 2020
• Valen, the pen name of Jerry Peterson, writes the John Santana series.
  — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2019
• Hooks wrote under the pen name bell hooks after her great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.
  — Michelle Garcia, NBC News, 15 Dec. 2021
• Shiki took his pen name from the cuckoo, whose song is said to resemble the sound of someone coughing up blood.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
• His father, Jonathan, was a writer who used Finn as a pen name and then legally changed the family name to Finn when David was in high school.
  — Glenn Rifkin, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• In prison, Porter wrote fourteen stories and began using O. Henry as a pen name.
  — The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• The twist is that, as the podcast's title suggests, the series was written by Morton’s father, who goes by the pen name Rocky Flintstone.
  — Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader, 6 Mar. 2018
• Twain's pen name originates from his time working with steamboats: Twain refers to a measure of length known as two fathoms (12 feet).
  — Logan Sykes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2015
• Yale class of ‘99—and the writer of eight romance novels, all published under the pen name Selena Montgomery.
  — Elizabeth Kiefer, Glamour, 27 Apr. 2018
• His poems, written under the pen name K Za Win, were full of a vigor that belied his monastic background.
  — New York Times, 25 May 2021
• The comics industry has a long history of people adopting pen names.
  — Asher Elbein, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
• Baggott is the author of more than two dozen books to date, both under her own name as well as various pen names like Bridget Asher.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 27 July 2023
• Spartacus Falanghina is the pen name for a former liquor broker turned author.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• Pocket Books Scandalized, a debut from the pen name of a still unnamed best-selling author, lives up to its title.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Their lead thinker—their most charismatic writer, anyway—goes by the pen name Mencius Moldbug.
  — Anthony Lydgate, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
• Her husband, known under the pen name Willy, recruits Colette to ghostwrite a novel to be published under his name.
  — Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 July 2018
• But in practice, certain prejudices just won’t go away, making a pen name appear to be the only option.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 27 July 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024