Who Are You Really?

Not to long ago I attended a local authors event and started chatting about names...interestingly enough, a good number of people there were using names different from their given names. It got me thinking... should I have used a pen name? no - I am too vain. I want my old friends to know that I finally did get that book published. Ten years later, but still! Here are some fun pen and real names that might surprise you: Agatha Christie (Mousetrap/Murder on the Orient Express) : Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller - she also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott J.K. Rowling (do I even have to say Harry Potter here?): The "K" is made up....she has no middle name and it does not stand for anything George Eliot (Silas Marner): Mary Ann Evans - yup, this novel was written by a woman who used a man's name to garner some respect back in the day.George Orwell (Big Brother/1984): Eric Arthur Blair and on the acting side... Cary Grant: Archibald Leach Rita Hayworth: Margarita Carmen Cansino Tina Turner: Anna Mae Bullock and the kicker for me... John Wayne: Marion Morrison - okay, this one you can't blame. Marion the gun slinger doesn't quite have the ring required to send the bad guys running. Questions: Any others you know of? Do you have a pen name? Considered it? If you were to go with one - what would it be?