Pseudonym the attempt was not entirely successful – and the two are still sometimes confused by booksellers. A pen name may be used specifically to hide the identity of the author, as in the case of exposé books about espionage or crime, or explicit erotic fiction. Some prolific authors adopt a pseudonym to disguise the extent of their published output, e.g. Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman. Co-authors may choose to publish under a collective pseudonym, e.g., P. J. Tracy and Perri O'Shaughnessy. Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee used the name Ellery Queen as both a pen name for their collaborative
Frederic Will Renaissance, under HRC Director, Harry Ransom. "Contemporary American Thought; Twentieth Century Literary Criticism; Politica Economia Cultura" (Santiago de Chile); "Contemporary Authors 1"; "Margins"; "International Who's Who in Poetry". Essay studies of his work in Frank Shynnagh (pseudonym), "Opus," "Iowa Review" (1992); Albert Cook, "On Frederic Will," "Iowa Review" (1992); book length study, Frank Shynnagh (pseudonym), "Song Broken, Song: The Work of Frederic Will" (Mellen, 2008). Frederic Will Frederic Will is a Midwestern American writer. Will has been active in many genres: poetry, fiction, cultural history, philosophy, translation, travel memoir. The American poet/novelist/critic/translator Frederic Will was born in New Haven, Connecticut