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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 the 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. 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 was subject to much local speculation. Tinasky was thought by many to be novelist Thomas Pynchon[1] until it was demonstrated that Tinasky was likely an obscure Beat Generation poet named Tom Hawkins.
^Ulin, David (25 April 1997). "Gravity's End". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 2013-08-27. While in Mendocino, [Pynchon] may or may not have written a series of letters to the Anderson Valley Advertiser under the name Wanda Tinasky.
WandaTinasky, ostensibly a bag lady living under a bridge in the Mendocino County area of Northern California, was the pseudonymous author of a series...
a pseudo-German word coined in 1985 as a joke by the pseudonymous WandaTinasky; the correct German form would be Glücksschmerz. It has since been used...
elaborate rumor insinuating that Pynchon and one "WandaTinasky" were the same person. A collection of the Tinasky letters was eventually published as a paperback...
of styles and the dearth of information about the two authors; the WandaTinasky letters also claimed that Gaddis, Pynchon, and Jack Green were the same...
Bernard; Krafft, John M. (1996). "Thomas Pynchon". In Giles, James R.; Giles, Wanda H. (eds.). American Novelists Since World War II. Dictionary of Literary...
Army Corps. Tom Hawkins, 61, American writer, probable author of the WandaTinasky letters, murder-suicide. Arwel Hughes, 79, Welsh orchestral conductor...
to the general mad science community only as the Tinasky Study (a probable allusion to WandaTinasky), Helen's project is a detailed, covert study of...
(writer) (1927–1988), Beat generation poet believed responsible for the "WandaTinasky" letter of the 1980s Thomas Hawkins (priest) (1766–1850), Church of...
pointed to an obscure Beat writer, Tom Hawkins, as the author of the WandaTinasky letters, which some had previously speculated to be the work of Thomas...
Author Newt Gingrich William R. Forstchen Albert S. Hanser Cover artist WandaTinasky Language English Genre Alternate history novel Publisher Thomas Dunne...
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