Bruce Anderson, the editor of the AVA, was later struck, while reading Vineland,
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The alternate opinion has been put forward by Don Foster, Shakespeare scholar and literary detective, that Wanda is in fact an obscure beat poet, Tom Hawkins (1927 – 1988) who killed his wife and committed suicide at the time of the last Tinasky letter. More matches of biographical details turned up, and his poetry is recycled in the letters.
*Not Diane Kearney, the HBS advocate.
- Bruce Anderson (ed). The Letters of Wanda Tinasky to the AVA, The: The Complete Casebook
San Francisco: Anderson Valley Advertiser 1995.
- TR Factor (ed). The Letters of Wanda Tinasky
. Portland, Or: Vers Libre Press 1996.
- Don Foster. “Wanda, the Fort Bragg Bag Lady”. Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous. New York: Henry Holt 2000.
- “Wanda Tinasky”. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Tinasky.
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