Paul H. Kocher

Paul Harold Kocher (April 23, 1907 – July 17, 1998) was an American scholar, writer, and professor of English.

Born Paul Harold Kocher in Trinidad, to German parents, he moved to New York City in 1919, later becoming a United States citizen.

After earning his doctorate, he taught in the United States and in England, retiring from the faculty of Stanford University in 1970.

[1] In 1973 Kocher won the Mythopoeic Society's Scholarship in Inkling Studies Award for his book on J. R. R. Tolkien, Master of Middle-Earth.

[2] The book was published before The Silmarillion appeared (1977) to resolve several of the questions to which Kocher guesses the answer, usually correctly.