what is a 'nom de plum'?

Question

i watched it in casanova
francesca bruni uses another author's name as the nom de plume

Answer 1

pen name, alias, literary pseudonym, literary double



Although it uses French, the phase "nom de plume" is a British invention not French. The French term for pen name literally was "name of war" (technically this term depended on history and an unliteral translation, nom de guerre was a military term adopted by writers and actually was understood as war code names). Today pseudonyme is a more common term for pen name in France



Examples include

Eleanor Marie Robertson as Nora Roberts and JD Robb

Benjamin Franklin as Mrs. Silence Dogood

Howard Allen O'Brien as Ann Rice

Theodore Geisel as Dr. Seuss

Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as Lewis Carroll

Samuel Langhorne Clemens as Mark Twain

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob as Piers Anthony

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay as Publius

François-Marie Arouet as Voltaire

Allen Stewart Konigsberg as Woody Allen

Chloe Anthony Wofford as Toni Morrison

Answer 2

A pen name.

Some time back, a whole lot of pens were actually quills, complete with a plume of feathery feathers, no doubt causing the phrase 'nom de plume.'

I think.

http://www.wikipedia.org

Read about it enough to know the 'e' is really there, and also that the British made up the phrase, not the French.

The British knew of the French phrase 'nom de guerre' but couldn't understand it because 'guerre' means 'war'...

So the British made up 'nom de plume' --later exported to France, and beyond.

Answer 3

I think it is spelled nom de plume. Regardless, it is a French phrase that translates as "pen name." In other words a pseudonym that an author may use to disguise his or her identity.



Stephen King has used the nom de plume of Richard Bachman for some of his work.

Answer 4

it's a synonym for pseudonym.



Nom de Plume: The word indicates a fictitious name that a writer employs to conceal his or her identity. For example, Samuel Clemens used the nom de plume "Mark Twain."



Hope this helps.



I love that movie, except now I get depressed at the thought that Heath is dead.

Answer 5

It's the name an author chooses to write pieces under. An alter ego of sorts...

Answer 6

It's French for Pen Name. Its what writers sometimes use when they don't want, for one reason or another, to publish under their given names.

Answer 7

a "name of the pen" or pen name... for example, Anne Rice