0 a name chosen by a writer to use instead of using his or her real name when publishing books --
1 an invented name used by a writer when he or she publishes something: --
C. L. Dodgson published under the pen name Lewis Carroll.
He legally changed his surname to match the pen name in the mid-1980s.
The term is also the pen name of the anonymous columnist.
Each chapter concludes with apostrophe to the poet himself containing his pen name.
The pen name literally means a person who always dreams.
She goes on to say that every now and then she regrets choosing that as her pen name.
Under her pen name she wrote novels in particular, also some with historical themes.
Collaborative authors may have also their works published under a single pen name.
Imaoka also used the pen name to write criticism.