{"id":1392800,"date":"2020-06-04T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1392800"},"modified":"2021-03-30T21:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:52:25","slug":"can-you-identify-these-authors-by-their-pen-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/can-you-identify-these-authors-by-their-pen-names\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: Can You Identify The Author by Their Pen Name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/6520authorpennamesMAIN_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Writers&nbsp;sometimes use pen names. This could be because 1) they&#8217;re writing something radical under a totalitarian regime, 2)&nbsp;they&#8217;re a woman living in 18th-century England, or 3)&nbsp;they wish&nbsp;to write their 100,000-word Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction under the cover of relative anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever the reason, authors aren&#8217;t always straight-up with us about who they are. How many of their real identities can you suss out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers&nbsp;sometimes use pen names. This could be because 1) they&#8217;re writing something radical under a totalitarian regime, 2)&nbsp;they&#8217;re a woman living in 18th-century England, or 3)&nbsp;they wish&nbsp;to write their 100,000-word Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction under   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[278,25016],"tags":[438,9807,25017,25139,8401,1653],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392800"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443914,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392800\/revisions\/1443914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}