John M. Bowers
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John M. Bowers

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JOHN M. BOWERS is a specialist on medieval English literature (like Tolkien) with dozens of publications on writers from St. Augustine to Shakespeare. Educated at Duke, Virginia, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar, he has taught at Caltech and Princeton. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and his Great Courses lectures "The Western Literary Canon" have sold thousands of copies. His award-winning book "Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer" was based on his discovery of an unpublished, unknown book by the Oxford professor.
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