noun
- the name of another person, especially a real person, used by an author as a pseudonym
Usage: literary
Examples
- The novelist published her controversial work under an allonym to avoid personal backlash.
- Using an allonym allowed the writer to distance himself from the political content of his book.
- The biography was written under an allonym borrowed from a deceased historian.
- Publishers sometimes suggest authors use an allonym when entering a different genre.
- The detective discovered that the threatening letters were signed with an allonym.
- Literary scholars debated whether the manuscript was genuine or written under an allonym.