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Writing is nice because you can hide behind it.

Nobody knows if I am actually the one writing this right now.  Or if someone else is doing so under my name.

S.E. Hinton can write books and people will read them, thinking that the author is a man and knows what's going on with gangs and brothers.  George Eliot can actually get books published, because people won't guess that the fine literature they're reading was actually written by (heaven forbid) a woman.

Really, the only people who are almost expected to have an alias are superheroes and authors:

Mark Twain.
Lemony Snicket.
Bruce Wayne.
Lewis Carroll.
Dr. Seuss.
George Orwell.
Voltaire.

Do writers have something to hide?  Must they create a chasm between themselves and their writing?

It's a very nice thing, hiding.