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Compiled by a secondhand-book dealer in London, this dictionary identifies the real names behind approximately 12,000 pseudonyms used by about 7,500 English-language writers from the seventeenth century to the present. Therefore, it includes pen names for figures ranging chronologically from Daniel Defoe and Henry Fielding to Stephen King and Joyce Carol Oates. The dictionary is divided into two sections, the first of which lists pseudonyms and identifies the writer who used each name. The second section is arranged by the authors' original names. Each entry includes the person's dates and a brief phrase identifying the writer by nationality and genre, for example, "English romantic novelist." Pseudonyms used by the author are then listed alphabetically, with one or two representative titles provided in parentheses following each.
Although Carty makes several factual errors (the most glaring of which is the identification of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, the American writer who penned most of the Nancy Drew books, as an "English science-fiction writer" ), the most disappointing aspect of this work is its incompleteness. Many authors who used pseudonyms (e.g., Ian Fleming, Louis L'Amour, Edgar Lee Masters, John Steinbeck) are not here at all, while the lists of pseudonyms for those who are included are often incomplete. For example, Carty identifies three pseudonyms for T. S. Eliot, twelve for Harlan Ellison, two for Ken Follet, and one for P. G. Wodehouse. Major 20th-Century Writers (Gale, 1991) lists six for Eliot, twenty-one for Ellison, four for Follet, and six for Wodehouse.
Comparisons of this work to other guides revealed that it is not as comprehensive as Pseudonyms and Nicknames Dictionary (3d ed., Gale, 1987) and Harold S. Sharp's Handbook of Pseudonyms and Personal Nicknames (Scarecrow, 1972; suppl., 1975; second suppl., 1982). Although this dictionary cannot stand alone as a reliable source of literary pseudonyms, it does include some unique entries. Therefore, large libraries will want to add it to complement the above mentioned sources.
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