Carmela Ciuraru is not a pseudonym. Her anthologies include First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems That Captivated and Inspired Them (Scribner) and Solitude Poems (Alfred A. Knopf
She is a 2011 Fellow in Nonfiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
For The Week magazine, Ciuraru named her favorite pseudonymous books, including:
Read about the other books on the list.Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Orwell’s literary debut, chronicling the lives of the working poor, is considered a masterpiece of reportage. But it was initially rejected by two publishers, and the author (whose real name was Eric Blair) admitted that he was not proud of it. Thus the persona "George Orwell" was born.
See Carmela Ciuraru's list of ten great books by pseudonymous authors.
--Marshal Zeringue