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  Clue: even if you don’t know the answer, there is quite often some connection between authors’ real names and the nom de plumethey choose for themselves.
 

Literary trivia questions

Real name                                               Pen name
Samuel Clemens                               Currer Bell
Hiraoka Kimitake                               Catherine Marchant
Eric Blair                                       George Eliot
François-Marie Arouet               George Orwell
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov       Mark Twain
Catherine Cookson                       Mary Westmacott
Charlotte Brontë                               Maxim Gorky
Agatha Christie                               Yukio Mishima
Mary Ann Evans                               Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson       Voltaire
 

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