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Originally Posted by Zen653
Among established authors, what's your favorite nom de plume?
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Back when "Primary Colors" was first published, and before it became known that Joe Kline was "Anonymous", I was attending a history seminar in South San Francisco. I had done my presentation the night before and on the final day, I wandered into a room where whatever the original topic had been, it was now the publication of that book. The speaker delivered what I thought was a rather dumb tirade against the anonymous author, saying how masking one's identity in such a book is really just a non accountability tactic and that proper political discourse in America has always been founded upon openness and it was not a part of our political traditions to embrace this unidentified attack journalism and so forth. He seemed really pissed off about it. Upon completing his remarks, he asked for questions from the audience and made the mistake of selecting me first.
"So, you mean the Federalist Papers really were written by "Publius?" I inquired, which got a huge laugh from the crowd, and probably made me an enemy for life of the speaker.
Because of all that, "Publius" is my second favorite all time nom de plume.
My favorite of course is..."Grandstander."