Word: ehrsam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MAJOR BYRON: THE INCREDIBLE CAREER OF A LITERARY FORGER (217 pp.)-Theodore G. Ehrsam-Boesen...
...Major Byron, N.Y.U.'s Professor Ehrsam has done the best job of literary detective work on the forger in print. He is himself sadly handicapped because: 1) the slippery major left few biographical traces, 2) Major Byron was first written as a Ph.D. thesis, and after two rewritings is still more awkward and pedestrian than even most doctoral dissertations. Yet Dr. Ehrsam sometimes proves himself a shrewder hand than his literary betters in the treacherous field of literary hokum...
...Author Ehrsam contributed proof of Major Byron's Shelleyana fakes in Robert Metcalf Smith's The Shelley Legend (TIME...