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Incidentally, the author’s pen name has its own lore: Conspiracy theorists believe Jamal T. Millwood is an alias used by slain rapper Tupac Shakur — who was signed by Death Row Records, a rival of Combs’ Bad Boy Records — who is also named in the book.
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Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
The newfound phenomenon was one in which certain particle features take a different path from their particle—much like the smile of the Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll—a pen name of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—and published in 1865.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
In August 2022, Rowling began promoting her new novel, The Ink Black Heart, published under her pen name Robert Galbraith.
—Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024
And Kendall’s Grace is prolific, with 171 novels listed on Amazon’s Goodreads site for that pen name alone.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024
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Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
The newfound phenomenon was one in which certain particle features take a different path from their particle—much like the smile of the Cheshire Cat in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll—a pen name of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—and published in 1865.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
In August 2022, Rowling began promoting her new novel, The Ink Black Heart, published under her pen name Robert Galbraith.
—Abby Gardner, Glamour, 3 Sep. 2024
And Kendall’s Grace is prolific, with 171 novels listed on Amazon’s Goodreads site for that pen name alone.
—Kate Bradshaw, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024
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“Pen name.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pen%20name. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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