Reason for anonymity: political risk

Works published anonymously because the argument was dangerous: sedition, revolution, intelligence, and dissent. The reason is assigned only where the record states it.

6 works.

• Later revealed

  Primary Colors

  Published 1996 · novel

  The 1996 roman a clef of a Clintonesque campaign, published as Anonymous. Joe Klein denied authorship, then admitted it six months later.

• Later revealed

  Through Our Enemies' Eyes

  Published 2003 · other

  The 2003 study of bin Laden published as 'Anonymous', required by the author's CIA employment. Michael Scheuer was identified and acknowledged the book.

• Later revealed

  Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror

  Published 2004 · treatise

  The 2004 critique of the war on terror published as 'Anonymous'. Its author was identified in the press as CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, who acknowledged the book.

• Pseudonym

  Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook

  Published 2004 · other

  The 2004 direct action handbook published by the CrimethInc. collective, whose contributors are deliberately unnamed as a matter of principle.

• Pseudonym

  Rolling Thunder

  Published 2005 · other

  An anarchist journal of eleven issues, 2005 to 2014, published by the CrimethInc. collective with deliberately unnamed contributors.

• Later revealed

  A Warning

  Published 2019 · other

  The 2019 book credited to Anonymous, a senior Trump administration official. Miles Taylor revealed himself as the author in 2020.

Other reasons:Gender · Propriety · Satire · Marketing · Religious · Unrecorded