Paul Harold Kocher was an author and professor of English. He wrote extensively on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

 as well as on aspects of Elizabethan English philosophy and literature, and the Franciscan missions of 18th and 19th century California.

Born Paul Harold Kocher in Trinidad

Trinidad

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, he later moved to New York

New York

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, becoming a United States citizen. He taught at various universities across the United States, retiring from Stanford University in 1970. Winner of the Mythopoeic Society

Mythopoeic Society

The Mythopoeic Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of mythopoeia, fantasy and mythic literature. The group focuses primarily, but not exclusively, on works written by J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and C. S. Lewis. These authors were members of The Inklings, an...

's Scholarship in Inkling Studies Award in 1973 for his book Master of Middle Earth.

Books and publications:

Marlowe

Marlowe

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's Atheist Lecture: The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 1940

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...

: A Study of His Thought, Learning and Character. North Carolina. 1946

Science and Religion in Elizabethan England. 1955

Master of Middle-Earth: the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. 1972
(published as: Master of Middle-Earth: the achievement of J. R. R. Tolkien in Britain in 1973)

California's old missions: the story of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California

Alta California

Alta California was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory was created in 1769 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, and consisted of the modern American states of California,...

, 1769-1823. 1976

Readers' Guide to the Silmarillion. 1980

Sources

Memorial Resolution from Stanford University