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Wanda Tinasky : ウィキペディア英語版 | Wanda Tinasky
Wanda Tinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series of playful, comic and erudite letters sent to the ''Mendocino Commentary'' and ''Anderson Valley Advertiser'' between 1983 and 1988. These letters were later collected and published as ''The Letters of Wanda Tinasky''. In them, Tinasky weighs in on a variety of topics - most notably local artists, writers, poets and politicians - with an irreverent wit and literate polish at odds with her apparently straitened circumstances. The harshness of the attacks was deemed excessive by the ''Commentary'' early on, and, as a result, most of the remaining letters appeared in the ''AVA''. At the time, the identity of Tinasky was completely unknown, and subject to much local speculation. Tinasky was thought by many to be novelist Thomas Pynchon, but some believe Tinasky to be an obscure Beat Generation poet named Tom Hawkins, though letters ostensibly penned by Tinasky were written after Hawkins' death. ==Thomas Pynchon==
In 1990, Bruce Anderson, the editor of the ''AVA'', read Thomas Pynchon's ''Vineland'', a novel set in northern California. Pynchon's style reminded Anderson of Tinasky, and Pynchon's notorious secrecy fueled speculation that he had been in the area during the 1980s. It occurred to Anderson that perhaps Pynchon was Tinasky. Indeed, Tinasky had written that she was writing a novel based on the local scene in Mendocino County. Similarities (both Tinasky and Pynchon worked for Boeing) were easy to play up, and discrepancies (Tinasky worked for Boeing ten years before Pynchon) just as easy to play down. This pattern of finding significant matches between Pynchon and Tinasky, while ignoring apparent contradictions, continued in the readings that followed. Anderson ran his speculations past some Pynchon fans, and received enough encouragement to report in the ''AVA'' that Pynchon was Tinasky. This announcement attracted little outside interest.
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