Donald Foster Fallible!

Dave Monroe davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 21 10:58:35 CDT 2002


Might have been posted already, but see also William
S. Niederkorn, "A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare'
Discovery," NY Times, Thursday, June 20th, 2002 ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/books/20SHAK.html

Bonus points for M.H. Abrams, Brian Vickers and Prince
Hal Bloom soundbites.  But Pynchon = Tinasky? aside,
Foster's job there was noticeably sloppy even to me
...

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:
> You may recall that Donald Foster is the "literary
> sleuth" who, in his book Author Unknown, claims to
> have discovered the actual identity (not Thomas
> Pynchon) of Wanda Tinasky.

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