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Pittacus

American  
[pit-uh-kuhs] / ˈpɪt ə kəs /

noun

  1. c650–570 b.c., democratic statesman and reformer from Mytilene.


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The most successful of these products, 2011’s I Am Number Four, was written by Frey and Jobie Hughes under the pseudonym Pittacus Lore and was adapted by DreamWorks in 2011.

From Slate

By the late 2010s, several big- and small-screen adaptions of hugely popular YA fantasy and science fiction series by Roth, Clare, Rick Yancey, and Pittacus Lore himself had bombed at the box office.

From Slate

Pittacus Lore, the pseudonym used jointly by James Frey and Jobie Hughes - as the author of the Lorien Legacy series, is up against McKenzie and La Fleur in the books for older readers category.

From BBC

The big name is Power of Six by Pittacus Lore, the explosive follow-up to I Am Number Four and rumoured to be en route to similar Hollywood treatment.

From The Guardian

Pittacus Lore has expressed his conception of the the story as an action/sci-fi book.

From The Guardian