Author: | Don Foster |
ISBN13: | 978-0805063578 |
Title: | Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous |
Format: | mobi lit lit doc |
ePUB size: | 1942 kb |
FB2 size: | 1760 kb |
DJVU size: | 1443 kb |
Language: | English |
Category: | Writing Research and Publishing Guides |
Publisher: | Henry Holt and Co.; 1st edition (November 8, 2000) |
Pages: | 320 |
Foster's unique skills first came to light when a front-page New York Times article announced his discovery that a previously unattributed poem was written by Shakespeare. A few weeks later, Foster solved the mystery that had obsessed America for months when he identified Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors Year: 2014.
Don Foster still teaches literature at Vassar College, but he's recognized as an expert in attributional theory-the idea that everybody has literary fingerprints, or, as he puts it, "no two individuals write exactly the same way, using the same words in the same combinations, or with the same patterns of spelling and punctuation. Foster is now an expert at identifying anonymous authors. He fell into this line of work accidentally. While lexiphiles will enjoy such minutiae, any book lover can savor the irony of how an Elizabethan elegy eventually put a literary scholar on the trail of a serial murderer.
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On the trail - Looking into Shakespeare - No, really, he is anonymous - Professor's whodunit - Starr-crossed lovers - Wanda, the Fort Bragg bay lady - Yes, Virginia, there was a Santa Claus - After words.
On The Trail of Anonymous. From the professor with an extraordinary gift for uncovering the authors of anonymous documents comes the inside story of how he solves his most challenging cases.
Author Unknown NPR's Renee Montagne talks with literary sleuth Don Foster about his new book Author Unknown: on the Trail of Anonymous. Foster has made a name for himself by putting a name on works when their authors don't. was indeed a lost work of Shakespeare. recently, Foster believes, that Clement Clarke Moore did not write the classic the Night Before Christmas
Best known for outing Joe Klein as the anonymous author of 1996’s Primary Colors, in Author Unknown: On the Trail of Anonymous, Don Foster spryly reveals his capers as a literary forensics expert. Claiming that writing style is as individual as a fingerprint, the Vassar English professor attributed a previously unidentified sonnet to Shakespeare, then was overwhelmed with invitations to help solve crimes and mysteries, including bomb threats, the Lewinsky-Tripp Talking Points, and a Pynchonesque literary hoax.
Written by. Don Foster. Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co. Release date: 8 November 2000 ISBN-10 : 0805063579 ISBN-13: 9780805063578.
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