toto or adding a lot of padding onto small fragments of an unknown work by Lewis to create the published work. Lindskoog also questioned the authenticity of other posthumously published works edited by Hooper. Hooper rejected these accusations, and independent research exists to disprove them and confirm the authenticity of the posthumous Lewis works edited by Hooper. Professor Alastair Fowler of the University of Edinburgh had Lewis as his doctoral supervisor in 1952, and he recalls discussing The Dark Tower with his mentor. This is a firsthand account of the manuscript's existence during Lewis' lifetime.Harry Lee Poe, "Shedding Light on the Dark Tower," Christianity Today, February 2, 2007 Lewis' stepson Douglas Gresham also disagrees with Lindskoog's forgery claims. "The whole controversy thing was engineered for very personal reasons…. Her fanciful theories have been pretty thoroughly discredited." Related works Diana Pavlac Glyer The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community''. Kent State University Press. Kent Ohio. 2007. References External links "Walter Hooper Papers, circa 1940-1980", finding aid at the University of North Carolina "Walter Hooper", citation at the Wade Center, Wheaton College (Clyde S. Kilby Lifetime Achievement Award, 2009) 1931 births 2020 deaths American male biographers American expatriates in the United Kingdom Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism People from Reidsville, North Carolina University of Kentucky alumni 20th-century American biographers People from Oxford Alumni of St Stephen's House, Oxford Catholics from North Carolina Writers from North Carolina Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in England