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. In retirement, he lives in the home in which he grew up, on Houghton Street 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.
Active in the study and teaching of local history, Dean Houghton is President of the Culver Historical Society and serves on the boards of the Marshall County Historical Society and the Wythougan Valley Preservation Council.
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