Famous Name Changes

Writers

Li Ang	Shi Shudan Born: 1952 Taiwan Writer best known for "The Butcher's Wife".
Nicholas Blake	Cecil Day-Lewis 1904 - 1972 Irish born poet and father of popular actor Daniel Day-Lewis.
Al Capp	Alfred Gerald Caplin 1909 - 1979 US cartoonist, originator of "Li'l Abner" strip.
Lewis Carroll	Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Born: 27 January 1832 England Died: 14 July 1898 (bronchitis) Writer of famous works such as "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Alice Through the Looking Glass".
Joseph Conrad	Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski Born: 1857 (Poland) Died: 1924 Lived and worked in England.
Aleister Crowley	Edward Alexander Crowley Born: 12 October 1875 Leamington Spa, England Died: 2 December 1947 Writer of philosophical and occult writings that form the backbone of the contemporary movement called "magick". Best knows as icon of contemporary occultists. Referring to himself as "The Great Beast", and "The Wickedest Man Alive".
George Eliot	Mary Ann (or Marion) Evans Born: 22 November 1819 Warwickshire, England Died: 22 December 1880 Writer. George Eliot was the pen name of the writer Mary Ann Evans, one of Victorian England's leading novelists.
John Le Carre	David John Moore Cornwell Born: 19 October 1931 Dorset, England Author of "Call for the Dead", "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", (the film starred Richard Burton), "The Little Drummer Girl", "The Russia House".
Astrid Lindgren	Astrid Ericsso Born: 14 November 1907 Vimmerby, Sweden Author of Pippi Longstocking.
Spike Milligan	Terence Allan Milligan Born: 16 April 1918 Ahmednagar, India Died: 27 February 2002 Legendary comedian.
George Orwell	Eric Arthur Blair Born: 25 June 1903 Motihari, India Died: 21 January 1950 Author of "Animal Farm" a modern beast-fable attacking Stalin(ism) and "1984", a novel setting forth his fears of an intrusively bureaucratised state of the future.
Ellery Queen	Joint pseudonym of the American crime novelists whose names are usually given as Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, originally Daniel Nathan and Manford Lepofsky.
Patrick Quentin	American detective fiction writers hide behind this name.
William Shakespeare	William Shakspere Born: Stratford-upon-Avon, England It is likely we will never know the true identity or identities of the person or persons whose work is collectivity attributed to the name "William Shakespeare". The true identity of the author(s) of over 30 plays and 200 poems has remained a point of debate for the last 200 years.
Irwin Shaw	Irmain Shamforoff Born: 27 February 1913 USA
Nevil Shute	Nevile Shute Norway Born: 1899 Middlesex, England Died: 1960 Australia Writer of "On the Beach", filmed starring Ava Gardner, and "A Town Like Alice" which has been filmed twice, the first time with Peter Finch.
Bram Stoker	Abraham Stoker Born: 8 November 1847 Dublin, Ireland Died: 20 April 1912 Writer. Best known work - Dracula.
Mark Twain	Samuel Langhorne Clemens Born: 30 November 1835 Florida, Missouri Died: 21 April 1910 Author and Humourist. One of the all-time great American authors of such classics as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn".
Voltaire	Francois Marie Arouet Born: 1694 (Paris, France) Died: 1778 Writer. Most famous for the novel Candide (1759).
Rebecca West	Cicily Isabel Fairfield Born: 1892 London, England Died: 15 March 1983 Writer, Critic, novelist and literary celebrity. Had famous love affairs with Charlie Chaplin and HG Wells.
Tennessee Williams	Thomas Lanier Williams Born: 26 March 1911 Columbus, Mississippi Died: 24 February 1983 One of America's greatest playwrights. Famous for works such as "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and "Night of the Iguana".