Donald Wayne Foster raised arguments challenging whether the person traditionally identified as the author of a text was correct. He has pointed to an obscure Beat writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, which some had previously speculated to be the work of Thomas Pynchon. Foster also joined a long-running effort by descendants of Henry Livingston Jr. to show that their ancestor, and not Clement Clarke Moore, wrote the famous poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas". Foster provided his account of sleuthing out these and other identifications in his book "Author Unknown" (including the Shakespeare-"Elegy" connection, which he still
Nicholas G. Moore Nicholas G. Moore Nicholas G. Moore is a director at Wells Fargo & Company and retired chairman and chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Moore received his BS degree in accounting from St. Mary's College of California and his JD degree from University of California Hastings College of the Law. He entered Coopers & Lybrand in 1968 as an accountant and was admitted to the partnership in 1974. In 1981 he was named managing partner. He was named chairman and chief executive officer of Coopers & Lybrand LLP in October 1994. Upon the merger with Price Waterhouse in July 1998, Moore