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9780805068122

Author Unknown : Tales of a Literary Detective

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805068122

  • ISBN10:

    0805068120

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-10-01
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Summary

Since no two people use language in precisely the same way, our identities are encoded in our own language. Foster has discovered how to unlock that code and invents an entire field of investigationliterary forensicsby which it becomes possible to catch anonymous authors as they ultimately betray their identities with their own words.

Author Biography

Don Foster is a professor of English literature at Vassar College. He has assisted with dozens of criminal investigations and civil suits involving anonymous or pseudonymous writings. He lives in Poughkeepsie, New York, with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents

Prologue: On the Trail 1(19)
Looking into Shakespeare
19(34)
No, Really, He Is Anonymous
53(42)
A Professor's Whodunit
95(48)
Starr-Crossed Lovers
143(45)
Wanda, the Fort Bragg Bag Lady
188(33)
Yes, Virginia, There Was a Santa Claus
221(55)
Epilogue: After Words 276(7)
Notes 283(20)
Acknowledgments 303(2)
Index 305

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