"Pen name" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had a phenomenal memory. I hope that it was an exact one. His story is given in its entirety because of its novelty. The only thing that makes me feel in the least sceptical is that La Mara,—the pen name of a writer on musical subjects,—translated these letters into German. But every one agrees that Chopin's end was serene; indeed it is one of the musical death-beds of history, another was Mozart's. His face was beautiful and young in the flower-covered coffin, says Liszt. He was buried from the ...
— Chopin: The Man and His Music • James Huneker
... unique environment, Irving passed his boyhood. Unlike his brothers, he did not go to Columbia College, but like Charles Brockden Brown studied law, and like him never seriously practiced the profession. Under the pen name of "Jonathan Oldstyle," he was writing, at the age of nineteen, newspaper letters, modeled closely after Addison's Spectator. Ill health drove Irving at twenty-one to take a European trip, which lasted two years. His next appearance in literature after ...
— History of American Literature • Reuben Post Halleck
... this communication is written make it impossible for us to affix our proper signatures; therefore, we trust that you will accept for a signature our pen name. ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 • Various |
