"Literary detective" Donald Foster subsequently showed that the Letters were in fact written by an obscure Beat writer, Tom Hawkins, who had murdered his wife and then committed suicide in 1988.
“文学侦探” 唐纳德·福斯特后来指出那些信实际上是由一为名叫汤姆·霍金斯的垮掉派作家所写，他在1988年杀害了自己的妻子并自杀。