The Vandal Theory Podcast – Season 8, Episode 2: Literary treasure hunting

Question: What do you think are some of the reasons why an author would prefer to use a pen name over their real one?

Zachary Turpin is an associate professor in the Department of English at University of Idaho who researches 19th-century periodical culture, archival research methods, digital humanities and textual recovery. He has worked to uncover unaccounted-for periodical works by American authors, including Walt Whitman, Emma Lazarus, Mark Twain, Anne Sexton, Cormac McCarthy and more. On today’s episode, he discusses uncovering lost works of literature.

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