The story behind the pen names of famous adventure writers

Many readers have followed certain writers because they brought them on an adventure, creating new worlds, characters and situations. However, many authors have created alter egos for themselves in the form of pen names.

You may know many of the pen names of famous authors, for example, Mark Twain was the pseudonym of Samuel Clemens. But did you know the origin of many of the best-known pen names?

Here are two quite different by well-known adventure authors and how they got their pen names.

Stan Lee

The name has become synonymous with comic books, but the godfather of that genre always held dreams of becoming a serious writer of novels. That’s Stanley Martin Lieber preserved his real name for a future as a serious novelist. He chose Stan Lee as a pen name for his book writing because it was the two syllables of his first name. Lee’s comic book career ended up being so successful that Lieber eventually changed his name legally to Stan Lee. ‘Nuff said.

Lewis Carroll

The man who brought Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to the world went by the real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Although he achieved great fame from his writing, Dodgson was quite shy and did not seek the limelight. That’s why he chose to go by a pen name. He arrived at Lewis Carroll in a very roundabout way. First of all, he changed his first two names into Latin form - Carolus Ludovicus. He then Anglicized them to Carroll Lewis and then switched them around to create the alter ego he went by during his professional writing career.

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