In 1990, Bruce Anderson, the editor of the AVA, read Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, a novel set in northern California.
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The situation changed in 1998 when Shakespeare scholar and "literary detective" Don Foster—who had gained publicity by correctly identifying Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors—fingered an obscure Beat poet and writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the letters.
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He married Kathleen Marie Gallaner and worked for Boeing in the early fifties, then in Beaumont, Texas in television, for station KFDM, and advertising.
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As a fan of William Gaddis, Hawkins discovered newspaper, the self-published Gaddis fansheet of "jack green".
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