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This is done to convey the impression -- which may even be true -- that the author would be in trouble were his or her identity known. So it's often done with controversial works, or works that wish to present themselves as such, and with exposes.
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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* ''[[The Wotch]]'' by Anne Onymous.
* ''2048'', a singularly [[Anvilicious]] dystopian novel that could best be described as ''[[Nineteen Eighty
* ''[[Primary Colors]]'' by Anonymous. Fifteen years later, ''[[O]]'' by Anonymous.
** Also by Anonymous ''[[A Book With No Name]]''.
* A Prussian nobleman wrote plays under the name J.E. Mand -- ''jemand'' is German for "someone."
* ''[[Go Ask Alice]]''... [[Based
* ''[[The Bride Stripped Bare]]''. Australian Nikki Gemmell eventually revealed her authorship.
* ''[[The Name Of This Book Is Secret]]'' and its sequels by [[Pseudonymous Bosch]].
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