"Pen names speckle
literary history and our modern bookshelves. If you own anything by George
Orwell, Anthony Burgess, or George Eliot, you own a piece of the epic chronicle
of pseudonyms. Authors change their names for many reasons, but historically,
one of the strongest reasons to use a pen name was to hide your lady bits. Back
in the day, women writers were forced to use male pseudonyms."