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An author who doesn't want their authorship known will use a [[Pen Name]]. An author who wants everyone to know they don't want their authorship known will use Anonymous, or a pen name that very obviously presents itself as a pen name.
This is done to convey the
Compare [[Pen Name]]. Contrast [[Same Face, Different Name]], where the pseudonym may not even be particularly opaque and serves largely to emphasize [[Genre Adultery]].
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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[The Wotch]]'' by Anne Onymous. ▼
* Unlike other fandom sites, [[Archive of Our Own]] permits authors to publish their fic anonymously, and even have [https://archiveofourown.org/collections/anonymous/profile an official collection] (and several unofficial ones) to group them. This is to not confuse with the practice of [https://archiveofourown.org/faq/orphaning orphaning], where the author deletes their profile and disavows their works, making then functionally anonymous for people who find them after the original author abandoned them.
* ''2048'', a singularly [[Anvilicious]] dystopian novel that could best be described as ''[[Nineteen Eighty Four]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] ''[[The Handmaids Tale]]'' only much, much worse, attributed to [[George Orwell (Creator)|Erica Blair]].▼
* ''[[Primary Colors]]'' by Anonymous. Fifteen years later, ''[[O]]'' by Anonymous. ▼
== [[Literature]] ==
▲* ''2048'', a singularly [[Anvilicious]] dystopian novel that could best be described as ''[[Nineteen Eighty
** Also by Anonymous ''[[A Book With No Name]]''.
* ''[[Go Ask Alice]]''... [[Based on a Great Big Lie|allegedly]].
* A Prussian nobleman wrote plays under the name J.E. Mand -- ''jemand'' is German for "someone." ▼
* ''[[
▲* ''[[The Name Of This Book Is Secret]]'' and its sequels by [[Pseudonymous Bosch]].
* ''[[Frankenstein]]'', on its initial publication, to hide that the author was a young woman.
* During her lifetime, [[Jane Austen]]'s novels only identified the author with the words "By a Lady".
** Parodying this, [[The Two Ronnies]] serial 'The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town' was credited to 'Spike Milligan & A Gentleman' (The Gentleman being Ronnie Barker).▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
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* Nearly all creators of the [[Visual Novel]] [[Katawa Shoujo]] use nicknames (e.g. cpl_crud, silentcook, Aura)▼
* Many of the credits in Mega Man II are aliases, e.g. Inafking, Tom Pon, 2m03cm Man, Yuukichan's Papa, Fish Man)▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* Nearly all creators of the [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'' use nicknames (e.g. cpl_crud, silentcook, Aura)
▲* Many of the credits in ''[[Mega Man|Mega Man II]]'' are aliases, e.g. Inafking, Tom Pon, 2m03cm Man, Yuukichan's Papa, Fish Man)
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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