Walter Hooper

Walter Hooper, Author, (1931 – 2020) earned a B.A. in English and an M.A. in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served in the U.S. Army for two years between these degrees. In June 1963, he studied at Exeter College’s summer session in England. While there, he met C.S. Lewis in person and over time helped Lewis informally with his correspondence.  After Lewis’s death Walter Hooper assisted with C.S. Lewis’s literary estate. Since then, Hooper edited numerous volumes of Lewis’s writings, as well as published three books of his own on Lewis and his writings. Hooper was awarded the Clyde S. Kilby Lifetime Achievement Award by the Marion E. Wade Center on October 21, 2009.