Editing Pen name (section)

===Concealment of identity===
A pseudonym may be used to protect the writer of exposé books about espionage or crime. Former SAS soldier Steven Billy Mitchell used the pseudonym [[Andy McNab]] for his book about a failed [[Special Air Service|SAS]] mission titled ''[[Bravo Two Zero]]''. The name [[Ibn Warraq]] ("son of a papermaker") has been used by dissident Muslim authors. Author [[Brian O'Nolan]] used the pen names Flann O'Brien and Myles na gCopaleen for his novels and journalistic writing from the 1940s to the 1960s because Irish [[civil servant]]s were not permitted at that time to publish political writings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bostonreview.net/roger-boylan-we-laughed-we-cried-flann-obrien|title=We Laughed, We Cried|last=Intern|date=21 June 2012|website=Boston Review|language=en|access-date=19 September 2019|archive-date=17 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717174740/http://bostonreview.net/roger-boylan-we-laughed-we-cried-flann-obrien|url-status=live}}</ref> The identity of the enigmatic twentieth-century novelist [[B. Traven]] has never been conclusively revealed, despite thorough research.<ref>Jesse Pearson (2009) [https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-myster-of-b-travern-270-v16n12/ "The Mystery Of B. Traven"], Vice.com, accessed January 25, 2017.</ref>

A [[multiple-use name]] or '''anonymity pseudonym''' is a pseudonym open for anyone to use and these have been adopted by various groups, often as a protest against the cult of individual creators. In Italy, two anonymous groups of writers have gained some popularity with the collective names of [[Luther Blissett (pseudonym)|Luther Blissett]] and [[Wu Ming]].