Claim: The Hobbit was written by a person.
Evidence: The Hobbit , or There and Back Again is a children 's fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.
He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College , Oxford , from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College , Oxford from 1945 to 1959.
He was at one time a close friend of C. S. Lewis -- they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.