The Only Use of
nom de plume
in
Into the Wild
- Six decades ago in this enchanting hideaway, less than a mile downstream from where the Mormon steps meet the floor of the gulch, twenty-year-old Everett Ruess carved his nom de plume into the canyon wall below a panel of Anasazi pictographs, and he did so again in the doorway of a small masonry structure built by the Anasazi for storing grain.†
p. 89.1
Definition:
a pen name or made-up name that an author signs to a work