Free For All Friday: Male Authors with Female Psuedonyms

While it's true women authors sometimes take male or gender-neutral pen names, there are also instances of male authors doing the same in reverse, especially when writing in female-dominated genres such as romance. Can you guess the male authors from their pen names, below? Answers follow.

            Pen Name

1. Dorothea Nile
2. Madeline Brent
3. Lydia Colby
4. Madeleine Ker
5. Leigh Anne Williams
   

      Author 

1. Michael Avallone
2. Peter O'Donnell
3. W.E.D. "Dan" Ross
4. Marius Gabriel Cippola
5. Billy Mernit