About the Author
The Very Reverend John Wm. Houghton, Ph.D., is Dean emeritus of the Alumni Chapel of the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He lives in Culver, Indiana, a town his family founded in 1844. An
Episcopal priest, Fellow of the Episcopal Church Foundation, and prize-winning historian, Dean Houghton was educated at Culver Military Academy, Harvard College, Indiana University, Yale Divinity School / Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and the Medieval Institute of the University of Notre Dame.
In addition to “The Thamauturge of Annandale” series, he is author
of Falconry and Other Poems (Marmont, 2018), and a novella, Fortunate
Empire (Marmont, 2017), as well as a number of academic essays and
reviews, chiefly on Tolkien and on Saint Bede the Venerable. He was editor-in-chief of Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in
Honor of Tom Shippey (McFarland, 2014) and a contributor to The
HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (1995) and The J. R. R. Tolkien
Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (Routledge, 2006), and
serves on the editorial boards of Mythlore and Journal of Tolkien Research.
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