Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Science and Lecturer in History at Harvard University's Extension School. He is the author of more than 150 publications including his edition of The Pověst vremennykh lět [Tale of Bygone Years], which received the Early Slavic Studies Association Award for Distinguished Scholarship.

• Introduction1. Did Moses Write the Pentateuch?2. Who Wrote the Analects?3. Who Wrote the Secret Gospel of Mark?4. Did Abelard and Heloise Write the Letters Attributed to Them?5. Who Wrote the Compendium of Chronicles (Jami al- Tawarik) and the Collection of Letters Attributed to Rashid al- Din6. Who Wrote Shakespeare?7. Who Wrote the Works Attributed to Prince Andrei Kurbskii?8. How Inauthentic Was James Macpherson's "Translation" of Ossian?9. Did Mikhail Sholokhov Write The Quiet Don?Afterword: Lessons Learned

This is a rigorous and fascinating investigation of alleged authors from Moses and Confucius to Abelard and Heloise, Shakespeare and an obscure Bolshevik journalist, among others. Along the way, Ostrowski discusses the multitude of factors and circumstances, as many as twenty, that come into play in the process of author attribution.(The Oxfordian)