Autonym


a person’s own name.
compare pseudonym.
a book published under the real name of the author.
historical examples

autonym, aw′ton-im, n. a writing published under the author’s real name.
chambers’s twentieth century dictionary (part 1 of 4: a-d) various

the volumes of “the autonym library” by any other name would be just as handy.
punch, or the london charivari, volume 107, september 15, 1894 various

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