• Adult Programming Newsletter •
August 8-14
Pseudonyms & Ghostwriters Edition

Authors have long used pseudonyms—also known as a pen name or nom de plume—to avoid social mores or bias, to separate their personal lives from their professional, or to get around publication rules. Stephen King (Richard Bachman), the Brontë sisters (Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell), and even Benjamin Franklin (Silence Dogood) have all published under aliases.
 
Alternatively, ghostwriters are hired to anonymously work on a book published under someone else's name and are often uncredited. Famous ghostwriters include H.P. Lovecraft, who ghosted for Harry Houdini in Weird Tales magazine, and Sinclair Lewis, who sold literary plots to Jack London. Read on for more pseudonyms and ghostwriters!
 
Programs
**Poetry Rising North Idaho with Stephen Pitters on Aug. 7, Aug. 14, & Aug. 28
has been canceled.**
 
Coffee & Coloring
 

Fridays in Aug. | 11am-12pm
Pinehurst Library
Come espresso yourself with a cup of coffee and adult coloring!
Open Craft
 

Mon. Aug. 9 | 6-7:30pm
Pinehurst Library
Bring what you're working on, share ideas, and socialize with other crafters.
Paint Dandelions
with Forks!?!

Sat. Aug. 14 | 1-3pm
Spirit Lake Library
Paint a coaster using a fun new technique! Space is limited, so please call
(208) 623-5353 or sign up at the front desk to attend.
Pseudonymous Novels
The Cuckoo's Calling
by Robert Galbraith

Working as a private investigator, veteran Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suspicious suicide and finds himself in a world of multi-millionaire beauties, rock star boyfriends, desperate designers, and hedonist pursuits.
 
Galbraith is the pseudonym of J.K. Rowling, who wanted to try her hand at publishing without the "hype or expectation" she experienced while writing the Harry Potter series.
Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays
by Mark Twain

A collection of Mark Twain's early writings begins with his first published work at age sixteen and includes a dazzlingly varied array of tall tales, short stories, essays, anecdotes, hoaxes, speeches, philosophies, fables, satires, and maxims.
 
Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens took his pseudonym from riverboat terminology: "twain" signifies two fathoms. Twain also wrote under the name Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.
Silas Marner
by George Eliot

For fifteen years the weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom alone and in exile, cut off from faith and human love, amassing wealth. His chance of redemption is connected with the fate of the village squire's son, who, like Silas, has been trapped by his past.
 
Mary Ann Evans chose the pseudonym George Eliot in order to escape writing the lighthearted romances that were expected of Victorian women authors and to separate her novels from her translations and criticisms.
Podcast Corner
Nancy Drew

Just who was Carolyn Keene? In this episode: learn how brilliant entrepreneur Edward Stratemeyer created a book packaging empire and enduring characters he never lived to see flourish; discover the ghostwriters, lawsuits, and influences behind one of the most influential role models of the 20th century; and examine the impressive résumé and changing character of amateur detective extraordinaire Nancy Drew.
 
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