Foster, Donald W., 1950-

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Foster, Donald W., 1950-
Other forms of name
Foster, Don, 1950-
Date of birth
1950
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 70460906
Wikidata: Q5295294
Library of congress: n 87910972
Sources of Information
  • His Elegy by W.S., c1988:CIP t.p. (Donald W. Foster) galley (Ph.D. from Univ. of Calif.) data sheet (b. 1950)
  • His Author unknown, 2000:CIP t.p. (Don Foster) pub. info. (b. 1950; also wrote, Elegy by W.S.; world's 1st literary detective)

Wikipedia description:

Donald Wayne Foster (born 1950) is a retired professor of English at Vassar College in New York. He is known for his work dealing with various issues of Shakespearean authorship through textual analysis. He has also applied these techniques in attempting to uncover mysterious authors of some high-profile contemporary texts. As several of these were in the context of criminal investigations, Foster was sometimes labeled a "forensic linguist". He has been inactive in this arena, however, since Condé Nast settled a defamation lawsuit brought against one of his publications for an undisclosed sum in 2007.

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