Literary trivia - match authors' pen names to their real names
Can you match the real names in the list on the left with the writers’ pen names in the list on the right?
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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