Hawkins, Tim, 1927-1988

found: Wikipedia, November 20, 2012(Tom Hawkins (writer); Thomas Donald Hawkins, January 11, 1927-September 3, 1988 was born in Pangurn, Arkansas; American writer who is the probably author of the Wanda Tinasky letters, once widely though to be the work of Thomas Pynchon. Self-published "Eve, the common muse of Henry Miller & Lawrence Durrrell in 1963 under the name "Tiger Tim Hawkins. Published Paul Krassner, the Realist, & $crap", 1963 as Tim Hawkins. Wanda Tinasky was a pseudonymous author of a series of letters written to the Mendocinio Commentary and Anderson Valley Advertiser between 1983 and 1988 which were later collected and published as The Letters of Wanda Tinasky. At the time Tinasky was thought by many to be Thomas Pynchon, but now is widely believed to be Tom Hawkins ) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hawkins_%28writer%29