![]() Klein has repeatedly dodged the question of authorship, and he could not be reached for comment. The data led Foster to conclude: "Joe Klein wrote this book, or else it's an almost impossibly clever hoax by someone who wanted his work to be taken for Joe Klein's." His computer runs did cross-correlations of the novel's text with hundreds of thousands of words from other writings by Klein and more than a dozen others who have been mentioned as possible authors of "Primary Colors," a novel about the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign. The identification of Klein, to be published in the issue of New York Magazine going on sale Monday, was developed by Donald Foster, the Vassar College professor of English who recently set the authoritative Modern Language Association on its ear by identifying a previously obscure elegy as the work of William Shakespeare.įoster used the same "attributional-study" techniques to identify Klein. 1 fiction best-seller "Primary Colors" is Newsweek writer Joe Klein. The anonymity of Anonymous suffered a blow yesterday with disclosure of a computer analysis that indicated the author of the No. ![]()
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