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Here is a lazy Sunday book review of the history of anonymity in literature and journalism. I loved how the book discussed the how and why authors chose disguises across the centuries. We do the same here in eHarmony Blog.Amazon link

The Toronto Star: The paradox of anonymity, dated 1 March 2009

From the back of the book

Some of the greatest works in English literature were first published without their authors’ names. Why did so many authors want to be anonymous–and what was it like to read their books without knowing for certain who had written them? In Anonymity, John Mullan gives a fascinating and original history of hidden identity in English literature. From the sixteenth century to today, he explores how the disguises of writers were first used and eventually penetrated, how anonymity teased readers and bamboozled critics–and how, when book reviews were also anonymous, reviewers played tricks of their own in return. …