Carmela Ciuraru
Grounded by research, yet highly accessible and engaging, Carmela Ciuraru's Nom de Plume: A (Secret) History of Pseudonyms (HarperCollins, $24.99), reveals the complex motives of writers—including the Brontes, George Eliot, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia Highsmith — who hoarded secret identities, sometimes playfully, sometimes with terrible anguish and tragic consequences. Ciuraru is also the author of several poetry anthologies, including First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them and Solitude Poems.
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