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You may already know who wrote as 'Fred Dagg', 'Joseph Furphy', 'Emily Rodda', 'Lian Hearn', 'Henry Handel Richardson', 'Waif Wander', or 'Carter Brown'.

But what about 'George Whitley'? 'Jack Rugby'? 'Silver Wattle'? 'Onyx'? 'Rambler'? 'Jacky Know Nothing'? 'Sir Rupert Gargoyle'? 'Alan Fish'?

Welcome to the AustLit Dictionary of Pseudonyms

This is a living dictionary of noms de plume of all types, from what we might call the traditional pseudonym ('Sigrid Sassoon'), to authors writing under a spouse's full name ('Mrs Jack McLaren'), mild shifts in nomenclature (Stephanie Laurens / M.S. Laurens), and initials.

The content is drawn from AustLit's decades of tracing works by Australian writers and about Australia.

The AustLit Dictionary of Pseudonyms will continue to be refined and expanded as AustLit is updated. Our aim is for a rich resource for Australian researchers, writers, readers, and the general public for decades to come.

If you can identify any of the unknown pseudonyms or would like to provide any other information, please email us.

Each dictionary entry is divided into two parts:

• alphabetical by author's first name
• alphabetical by pseudonym

To find an author in the listing, navigate directly to the relevant section using the links on the left-hand side of the screen.

Links in the dictionary entries will take you to the works published under that name (alphabetical listing by name) or pseudonym (alphabetical listing by pseudonym).

Authors with multiple pseudonyms will have multiple entries.

Writing names used by more than one person will have separate entries under each author.

Writing names that begin with an article (an, an, the) are alphabetised twice in the lists of pseudonyms: once under the article and once under the initial letter of the first word (e.g., A Faun of Thrace; Faun of Thrace, A).