BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

Anonyms and Pseudonyms

International

Pseudonyms and nicknames dictionary : a guide to 80,000 aliases, appellations, assumed names, code names, cognomens, cover names, epithets, initialisms, nicknames, noms de guerre, noms de plume, pen names, pseudonyms, sobriquets, and stage names of contemporary and historical persons, including the subjects' real names, basic biographical information, and citations for the sources rfom which the entries were compiled. Jennifer Mossman, editor. 3rd ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., c1987. 2 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, CT120 P8 1987 (LC)+ Oversize
Covers "actors, aristocrats, artists, athletes, authors, clergymen, criminals, entertainers, film stars, journalists, military leaders, monarchs, musicians, playwrights, poets, politicians, popes, rogues, saints, theatrical figures, and other prominent personalities of all nations throughout the ages." --Sheehy

English

Halkett, Samuel. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English Literature. New and enl. ed. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1926-62. 9 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1065 H35 1971 (vols. 1-7)
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1065 H35 (vols. 8-9)
Copies also in: Beinecke, Reference; Divinity, Stacks; Medical/Historical, Reference; British Art Center, Reference; Lewis Walpole Library; Franklin Collection
"The best list for English works, although since most of the authorities cited are general in character, the work is not the final authority in cases of disputed authorship." Volume 9, originally planned to "consist entirely of additions and corrections to the period before 1900" (preface) now includes also as many additional items for the period 1900-1950 as possible. A new and updated edition was planned, but nothing has appeared since the first volume in 1980.

French

Barbier, Antoine-Alexandre. Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes. 2. Nachdruck Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms, 1986. 4 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1067 B37 D3 1986 (LC)
Volume 4 reproduces in its entirety Brunet's Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes. Supplément.

German

Holzmann, Michael. Deutsches anonymenlexikon ... aus den quellen bearb. von dr. Michael Holzmann und dr. Hanns Bohatta ... Weimar : Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1902-28. 7 v. (reprinted, Olms, 1961).
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1068 H64 (LC)
Beinecke, Zg Office
Divinity, Stacks, Z1068 .H64 1961 (LC)
Medical/Historical, Stacks, Hist Z1068 H6 1961

Holzmann, Michael. Deutsches Pseudonymen-lexikon ... Aus den Quellen bearb. von
Dr. Michael Holzmann ... und Dr. Hanns Bohatta ... Wien, Akademischer Verlag, 1906. (reprinted, Olms, 1961)
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1068 H65 (LC)
Beinecke, Reference, Z1068 H65 1961 (LC)
Divinity, Stacks, Z1068 .H65 1961 (LC)

Italian

Melzi, Gaetano. Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani, o come che sia aventi relazione all'Italia, di G. Melzi. New York, Burt Franklin [1960]. 3 v.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1070 M45 (LC)
Covers the 16th to 19th centuries. Many useful bibliographic notes. Sources of attribution only occasionally indicated.

Supplemented by: Passano, Giambattista. Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime, in supplemento a quello di Gaetano Melzi. New York, Burt Franklin [1960]
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1070 M45 P37 (LC)

Latin American

Medina, José Toribio. Diccionario de anónimos y seudónimos hispanoamericanos, apuntaciones reunidas por José Toribio Medina ... Buenos Aires, Impr. de la Universidad, 1925. 2 v. in 1.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1049 A1 M43 (LC)+ Oversize

Errors and omissions in: Victorica, Ricardo. Errores y omisiones del Diccionario de anónimos y seudónimos hispanoamericanos de José Toribio Medina. Buenos Aires, Viau & Zona, 1928.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1049 A1 M432 (LC)+ Oversize

And: Victorica, Ricardo. Nueva epanortosis al Diccionario de anónimos y seudónimos de J.T. Medina. Buenos Aires, L.J. Rosso, 1929. Detroit, B. Ethridge, 1973.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1049 A1 M433 1973 (LC)

Arabic

Da¯ghir, Y¯usuf As`ad. Mu`jam al-asm¯a' al-musta`¯arah wa-ash¯abih¯a l¯a siyyama
f¯i al-adab al-`Arab¯i al-had¯ith. Bayr¯ut : Maktabat Lubn¯an, 1982.
SML, Near East Collection, Z1087 A65 D33X 1982

Etc.

Callahan, J. Kenneth. A dictionary of sporting pen names : pseudonyms of writers on many subjects ... Peterborough, N. H. : Callahan & Company, 1995.
SML, Starr Main Reference Room, Z1041 C35 1995 (LC)+