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Mr. Higgins — the best known of the many noms de plume of Henry Patterson — had a nervous system ailment that in recent years interfered with his writing.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2022

There is a whole taxonomy of authorial falsification, from ghostwriters and noms de plume to plagiarism and forgery, and within each species there are moral boundaries.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

The framers of the constitution gave themselves classical noms de plume in their correspondence, and consciously modelled their new nation on the Roman republic.

From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2017

They won’t forget the struggle anytime soon—both of them still use noms de plume to shield themselves.

From Slate • Oct. 15, 2014

Giacomo Meyerbeer and Jacques Offenbach - the noms de plume, in fact, of two German Jews originally named Jacob - took the Paris opera world by storm in the 1830s and ’40s.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall