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In Memoriam Walter Hooper (1931–2020)

In Memoriam Walter Hooper (1931–2020) In Memoriam Walter Hooper (1931–2020) Obituary Walter McGehee Hooper was born 27 March 1931 in the small tobacco town of Reidsville, North Carolina, the son of a central-heating engineer. He read English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taking his BA in 1953. In his final term at UNC he was introduced to J.B. Phillips’s Letters to Young Churches: A Translation of the New Testament Epistles (1947). It contained an introduction by a writer whose name Hooper had never come across before, C.S. Lewis. After graduating from UNC, Hooper entered the United States Army (1954–56) and began consuming the works of Lewis in earnest. The first stand-alone title he read was Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947). He kept his copy hidden beneath his shirt during basic training, which made for some discomfort during callisthenics and bayonet practice. ‘However, in those little ten-minute breaks between firing bazookas and throwing grenades, I managed to read a page or so. If a book can hold your interest during all that excitement, and while you’re crawling under barbed wire in a muddy trench, it is a very, very good book.’ His reading of Lewis was not at all systematic: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Inklings Studies Edinburgh University Press

In Memoriam Walter Hooper (1931–2020)

Journal of Inklings Studies , Volume 11 (1): 10 – Apr 1, 2021
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In Memoriam Walter Hooper (1931–2020) Obituary Walter McGehee Hooper was born 27 March 1931 in the small tobacco town of Reidsville, North Carolina, the son of a central-heating engineer. He read English Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, taking his BA in 1953. In his final term at UNC he was introduced to J.B. Phillips’s Letters to Young Churches: A Translation of the New Testament Epistles (1947). It contained an introduction by a writer whose name Hooper had never come across before, C.S. Lewis. After graduating from UNC, Hooper entered the United States Army (1954–56) and began consuming the works of Lewis in earnest. The first stand-alone title he read was Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947). He kept his copy hidden beneath his shirt during basic training, which made for some discomfort during callisthenics and bayonet practice. ‘However, in those little ten-minute breaks between firing bazookas and throwing grenades, I managed to read a page or so. If a book can hold your interest during all that excitement, and while you’re crawling under barbed wire in a muddy trench, it is a very, very good book.’ His reading of Lewis was not at all systematic:

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Published: Apr 1, 2021

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