Talk:Walter Hooper

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Corroborative evidence for Lewis's authorship[edit]

Users of this site might want further information regarding 'a man named Alistair Fowler.' Prof. Fowler is a Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh. His article, 'C.S. Lewis: Supervisor' was published in the Yale Review (LXXXXI/4 (October 2003), pp. 64-80 and concerns his relationship with Lewis when Prof. Lewis was his doctoral supervisor as he, Fowler, prepared his Oxford D. Phil. thesis. Prof. Fowler is a leading scholar in his field and his word on this bizarre charge by Mrs Lindskoog should be decisive among anyone seriously wishing to understand the valuable work undertaken by Walter Hooper. From Dr J.E.B. Munson, M.A., D. Phil. (Oxon.) (This section moved from the article page to the talk page by Bigturtle 23:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC).)[reply]

That was added to the article by User:James Munson 12:23, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

--P64 (talk) 20:06, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Placement issue[edit]

Should the article begin with the 'controversy' aspect. I realise that this was/is an ongoing issue for those involved, but one man's life is hardly defined by the response provoked from others by the particular matter, and placing it at the head of the article does seem to lend it an undue nucleal space. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.77.99.158 (talk) 21:41, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, thanks. Bigturtle (talk) 19:54, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Chronicle of Higher Education Article[edit]

Without getting in the middle of the Hooper/Lindskoog debate, I have to note that the Chronicle of Higher Education article which is cited does not support Hooper's position. Nor Lindskoog's position, for that matter. It merely details the controversy, and should not be used as a "proof" one way or the other. --Fatherz 16:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This comment has lingered here unaddressed for nearly a decade, but I'd like to second it. The Chronicle article from 2001 (which is no longer available, but can be seen in the Wayback Machine here -- we ought to fix that link) does not obviously support the claim that "independent research exists to disprove the accusations and confirm the authenticity of the posthumous Lewis works edited by Hooper", the statement for which that link is cited as a reference. I think we ought to be careful, obviously, in discussing allegations made against a living person, which have involved legal threats at the very least, if not legal action. But we also, I think, ought to be careful not to simply dismiss charges against that person as being "disprove[d]" when, to my knowledge, that "proof" is still in dispute. There are other cited claims in the article which I think give a good sense of the evidence in support of Hooper -- the memories of some former students/friends of Lewis about a manuscript they saw many years prior -- but I think we should rephrase the statement about "independent research", and honestly we should probably give a slightly clearer statement of what Lindskoog's charges are against Hooper, to the extent that we can do so in a BLP article. Anyone have any thoughts on this? Jwrosenzweig (talk) 23:38, 27 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hagiography[edit]

I think there might be a more satisfactoy way of referring to Hooper's "high ethical standards and love of C. S. Lewis". Myopic Bookworm (talk) 19:46, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Small change made to reflect this proposal. Bigturtle (talk) 23:22, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Arts and entertainment[edit]

In the WP:WPBIO banner above, I reallocated him from science-and-academia to arts-and-entertainment. (Same as Talk: Kathryn Lindskoog. Yes, they both had teaching jobs for a time but they are notable for independent work in the literature field.)

We say here that Hooper was an American college instructor with M.A. in education, age about 30, when he 'loped to visit England and CSL, evidently in 1963. Briefly private secretary, then literary executor. Assistant Anglican priest, then Roman Catholic. At the head of our list of works we say "a literary executor and advocate rather than independent scholar". --P64 (talk) 20:18, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Biography[edit]

There is much more info available via the new section External links, especially those at UNC-Chapel Hill and Wheaton College. I do not expect to work on the body of this article myself. --P64 (talk) 20:55, 17 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]