Four Essays on the Shakespeare Authorship Question
Born in Oakland, California in 1951, A'Dair was raised in San Leandro, California and attended what is now known as the California State College of the East Bay, then known as Cal State Hayward. He left college soon after the U.S. National Guard started killing college students at Kent State University in Ohio.     Passionately devoted to his vocation as a poet and visionary, A'Dair has lived in attics in San Francisco and in tool sheds in Berkeley. He has written poetry since 1969 and has written two plays, American Peace and The Growers.       In 1981 he left the Bay Area and settled in Willits, California, a small town on the Golden State's north coast. He has made his living by a variety of jobs, incuding bus driving, ambulence driving, unloading railroad box cars, landscaping, viniculture, clerking a natural foods store, secretarial work for an internationally known leader of the sustainable gardening movement, and, for 14 years, as a newspaper reporter.        He has loved and admired the works of William Shakespeare since his high school days, but never completely understood how the man from Stratford could have written them. He read Shakespeare Identified in Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford , by John Thomas Looney, in 2003 and was greatly enlightened by that book. Since then, he has read widely in "Oxfordian" literature.        This book is A'Dair's attempt to collect and present an array of convincing arguments in support of the theory that Edward de Vere wrote the works of William Shakespeare.