21st-century pseudonymous writers

Ruth Rendell

English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries.Rendell is best known for creating Chief Inspector Wexford

Anne Rice

American author of gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Christian literature

Michael Moorcock

English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic novels and non-fiction

Stephen King

American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels

A. S. Byatt

English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner, and won the 2017 Park Kyong-ni Prize