Douglas A. Anderson

Douglas Allen Anderson ( born 1959 ) is an American literary scholar and bookseller. His specialty is the fantasy literature, he did deserve it. Particularly to the edition philology fantastic works

Anderson worked as a bookseller at first in Ithaca, New York, then in northern Indiana. 1988 Apparitions his first book, The Annotated Hobbit, a text- critical and annotated edition of JRR Tolkien 's famous children's book The Hobbit. Since the publication of The Annotated Hobbit, for which he was awarded the Mythopoeic Award, Anderson considered the world's greatest expert on the textual tradition of the Hobbit.

On Anderson's critical text studies to the Lord of the Rings the modified American edition is based at Houghton Mifflin in 2002, which also included several changes to Tolkien's British editions. Anderson also contributed a note on the text at that discusses the history of these changes.

With Verlyn Flieger and Michael DC Drout is Anderson editor of the journal Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review ( so far band 1-7, 2004-2010 ).

Anderson was also modern issues other fantasy writers out, eg Kenneth Morris and William Hope Hodgson.

Writings

  • JRR Tolkien: Interviews, Reminiscences, and Other Essays (forthcoming)
  • Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008, ISBN 978-0-345-49890-8
  • The 100 Best Writers of Fantasy & Horror, 2006 ( unpublished)
  • H. P. Lovecraft 's Favorite Weird Tales: The Roots of Modern Horror, 2005
  • Adrift on The Haunted Seas: The Best Short Stories of William Hope Hodgson, 2005
  • Seekers of Dreams: Masterpieces of Fantasy, 2005
  • Book of The Three Dragons by Kenneth Morris, 2004
  • Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy, 2003
  • Eyes of the God: The Weird Fiction and Poetry of RH Barlow, 2002
  • The Annotated Hobbit ( New edition ), 2002, ISBN 0-618-13470-0
  • The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis, 2000
  • The Dragon Path: Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris, 1995
  • The Marvellous Land of Snergs by EA Wyke -Smith, 1995
  • JRR Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography ( Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers ) ( with Wayne G. Hammond ), 1993
  • The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Weird Tales by Leonard Cline, 1992
  • The Chalchiuhite Dragon by Kenneth Morris, 1992
  • The Annotated Hobbit, 1988

Comments

  • Literary scholar
  • Americans
  • Born in 1959
  • Man
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