Walter hooper biography

Walter Hooper, a North Carolina man who dedicated his life to preserving and promoting the writings of C. S. Lewis, died Monday at the age of 89. He was a literarytrustee for Owen Barfield from Dec.

1997 to Oct. 2006. When he saw a British bookshop clearing out its stock of Lewis’s titles, he decided he needed to fight to keep the works in print and promote Lewis’s legacy.

A few of his efforts were controversial. He served in the U.S. Army for two years between these degrees. This led him to read Miracles, The Screwtape Letters, Arthurian Torso, The English Literature of theSixteenth Century, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

He continued to promote Lewis for the rest of his life.

Hooper edited more than 30 collections of Lewis’s writing and annotated four volumes of letters, in addition to writing the first authorized biography and a number of studies and reference volumes. The Church of England was “unravelling,” he said.

The introduction, which made an argument about how God entered into the world through the Incarnation and comes to us still in everyday, prosaic language, changed Hooper’s life.

“I’d never met anybody who believed that way,” he said. “This readable volume seems to reflect a lifetime of meditating on everything written by Lewis and about him, of talking to those who knew Lewis, and of ruminating upon his own conversations with Lewis during their brief acquaintance.”

When Hooper was once asked by a schoolchild what it felt like to dedicate his whole life to another man’s work, he said, “It feels wonderful.

No, no fool.”

That November, Lewis died, and Hooper was asked to return and help with the literary estate.

“But I thought, I really love this man.”

He extended his stay to help Lewis answer his mail and then agreed to return officially when he was done with his teaching appointment in Kentucky. In the early years, he played a pivotal role in keeping Lewis in print.