20th-century pseudonymous writers

The list 20th-century pseudonymous writers includes Shel Silverstein, Sylvia Plath, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling and Dr. Seuss. The list consists of 1,045 members.

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Shel Silverstein

American poet

Overview: Sheldon Allan Silverstein (September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999) was an American writer known for his cartoons, songs, and children's books. He styled himself as Uncle Shelby in some works. His books have ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1930

Date of death: 10 May 1999

Age: 68 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Jewish caricaturists 15T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

Burials at Westlawn Cemetery 4T
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Sylvia Plath

American, Poet

Overview: Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of ...

Date of birth: 27 October 1932

Date of death: 11 February 1963

Age: 30 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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1963 suicides 28T

American women writers who committed suicide 22T

People from Jamaica Plain 93T
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Stephen King

American author

Overview: Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. His books have sold more than 350 million copies ...

Date of birth: 21 September 1947

Age: 75

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 4" (193 cm)

Partner: Tabitha King (Married)

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Schoolteachers from Maine 21T

Horror templates 2T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T
4.

J.K. Rowling

English author of the Harry Potter series

Overview: Joanne Rowling CH, OBE, HonFRSE, FRCPE, FRSL ( ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist ...

Date of birth: 31 July 1965

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Neil Murray (Married)

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20th-century English women writers 690T

21st-century English women writers 392T

People from Yate 8T
5.

Dr. Seuss

American cartoonist, children's animator and writer

Overview: Theodor Seuss Geisel ( ; March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr ...

Date of birth: 2 March 1904

Date of death: 24 September 1991

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

Screenwriters from Massachusetts 188T

Military personnel from Massachusetts 218T
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Agatha Christie

English author

Overview: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her sixty-six detective novels and fourteen short story c ...

Date of birth: 15 September 1890

Date of death: 12 January 1976

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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20th-century English dramatists and playwrights 220T

Writers from Devon 4T

20th-century English women writers 690T
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Samira Khashoggi

Saudi Arabian, Writer

Overview: Samira Khashoggi (or Kashoggi) (1935 – March 1986) was a Saudi Arabian progressive author, as well as the owner and editor-in chief of Alsharkiah magazine. She was the sister of Saudi businessman Adnan ...

Date of birth: 1935

Date of death: March 1986

Age: 50 (age at death)

Nationality: Saudi Arabian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Saudi Arabian women journalists 5T

20th-century Saudi Arabian women writers 5T

El Fayed family 3T
8.

Vladimir Lenin

Russian politician, led October Revolution

Overview: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first ...

Date of birth: 22 April 1870

Date of death: 21 January 1924

Age: 53 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Head of State

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

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Stroke-related deaths in the Soviet Union 8T

Russian Communist writers 6T

19th-century pseudonymous writers 449T
9.

Aleister Crowley

poet, mountaineer, occultist

Overview: Aleister Crowley (born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer. He founded the religion of ...

Date of birth: 12 October 1875

Date of death: 1 December 1947

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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British psychedelic drug advocates 17T

Ceremonial magicians 20T

English LGBT novelists 87T
10.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist

Overview: Neil deGrasse Tyson (American English: , British English, Australian English, New Zealand English, Indian English: ; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, planetary scientist ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1958

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Astronomer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

Partner: Alice Young (Married)

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Members of the National Society of Black Physicists 10T

Shorty Award winners 210T

Harvard College alumni 2,012T
11.

Anton LaVey

American Satanist religious leader

Overview: Anton Szandor LaVey (born Howard Stanton Levey; April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997) was an American author, musician, and occultist. He was the founder of the Church of Satan and the religion of Satanism ...

Date of birth: 11 April 1930

Date of death: 29 October 1997

Age: 67 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)

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American male organists 374T

Male organists 2,110T

American LaVeyan Satanists 17T
12.

Mark Twain

American, Writer

Overview: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1835

Date of death: 21 April 1910

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Christian abolitionists 358T

Anti-vivisectionists 128T

Writers from Elmira, New York 15T
13.

Michael Crichton

American novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker

Overview: John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His ...

Date of birth: 23 October 1942

Date of death: 4 November 2008

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 9" (206 cm)

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20th-century American screenwriters 2,114T

Harvard College alumni 3,069T

Television producers from Illinois 132T
14.

Ayn Rand

Novelist, philosopher, playwright, screenwriter

Overview: Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2, [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1905

Date of death: 6 March 1982

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: Russian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)

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American anti-communists 215T

Russian atheist writers 5T

American atheist writers 19T
15.

Stan Lee

American comic book writer and creator

Overview: Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called ...

Date of birth: 28 December 1922

Date of death: 12 November 2018

Age: 95 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Respiratory disease deaths in California 22T

Deaths from congestive heart failure 12T

21st-century pseudonymous writers 432T
16.

Margaret Mitchell

American novelist

Overview: Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel ...

Date of birth: 8 November 1900

Date of death: 16 August 1949

Age: 48 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Author

Gender: Female

Height: 4' 10" (147 cm)

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Novelists of the Confederacy 4T

The Westminster Schools alumni 33T

Pseudonymous women writers 644T
17.

bell hooks

American, Sociologist

Overview: Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author, professor, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is borrowed ...

Date of birth: 25 September 1952

Date of death: 15 December 2021

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Sociologist

Gender: Female

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American socialist feminists 110T

21st-century pseudonymous writers 421T

University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni 737T
18.

Gulzar

Indian film director

Overview: Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known professionally as Gulzar, is an Indian lyricist, poet, author, screenwriter, and film director. He started his career with music director S.D. Burman ...

Date of birth: 18 August 1936

Age: 86

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Recipients of the Gangadhar National Award 27T

Directors who won the Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment National Film Award 33T

Best Lyrics National Film Award winners 26T
19.

R.L. Stine

Writer

Overview: Robert Lawrence Stine (born October 8, 1943), sometimes known as Jovial Bob Stine and Eric Affabee, is an American novelist, short story writer, television producer, screenwriter, and executive editor ...

Date of birth: 8 October 1943

Age: 79

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Jane Waldhorn (Married)

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Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni 132T

People from Greater Columbus, Ohio 7T

Novelists from Ohio 259T
20.

Harper Lee

Novelist

Overview: Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern ...

Date of birth: 28 April 1926

Date of death: 19 February 2016

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Novelists from Alabama 89T

American United Methodists 469T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T