Word: pseudonymous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael O'Donovan, Cork-born in 1903, got off the mark so fast that he tried to publish his "collected works" at the age of twelve. Later, having adopted the pseudonym of Frank O'Connor, he published several novels and plays, some verse, a biography of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins, and a host of short stories that critics have called the best in Ireland since James Joyce's Dubliners. "O'Connor," said the late great William Butler Yeats, "is doing for Ireland what Chekov did for Russia...
...millinery business. His father began to catch on when young Iz (the family nickname) forged his name on an excuse from school to see the doctor. Iz went to the local vaudeville house instead. Father Leopold stormed. Iz threatened to run away- under a pseudonym, to spare the family name. Father Leopold didn't like that, either. Said he: "If you make a hit, nobody will know...
...Paris doctor donated 5,000 francs and Publisher Bruller bought the necessary paper bit by bit on the black market. Under the pseudonym "Vercors" he also wrote the Editions' first volume, Le Silence de la Mer (later translated as The Silence of the Sea and published in LIFE Oct. 11, 1943). Working secretly nights and Sundays, Underground Printer Ernest Aulard handset the Editions' first volumes, later managed to obtain a linotype...
Taffy-haired, wide-eyed Gunnar Skog (a pseudonym) was a schoolboy of 16 when the Nazis overran Norway four years ago. Like thousands of others among his 2,900,000 countrymen, he went into the underground to fight the German-Quisling tyranny. Recently he escaped to Sweden, then to Britain. Last week, en route through New York to "Little Norway" in Canada, where he expects to become a Royal Air Force navigator, he told this story of life under the Germans...
...Times letter was signed Isaac Bickerstaff, the pseudonym under which Jonathan Swift once hoaxed his public...