Pen Names

July 18, 1811, was the birth date of William Makepeace Thackeray, remembered best as the author of "Vanity Fair." Thackeray--journalist, editor and publisher, as well as a novelist--didn't always write under (or over) that name. Among his various noms de plume: M.A. Titmarsh, Theophile Wagstaff, C.H. Yellowplush and G.S. Fitzboodle.

Our favorite pen name: B.P. Ballpoint.