Holly Ordway

Holly Ordway, Ph.D. is the author of Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Reader (2021), which thoroughly examines the contemporary literature that J.R.R. Tolkien read in his lifetime. This book won the Mythopoeic Society's 2022 Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.
 https://www.mythsoc.org/assets/2022-Winners-Press-Release.pdf
In 2023, she finished writing Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography, the first published biography to focus on Tolkien's faith.
She teaches apologetics as a Visiting Professor at Houston Christian University in Houston, Texas. She is among many Tolkien experts who have guest-lectured at Marquette Universityhttps://www.marquette.edu/haggerty-museum/tolkien-program-series.php, lecture series info in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, home of the largest American Tolkien-collection. Ordway has also contributed to works concerning Tolkien's close friend, C.S. Lewis.
==External links==
*HCU faculty page
*Twitter
*Goodreads page
*Interview on John Carswell's Tolkien Road Podcast
== See also ==
* Jonathan S. McIntosh
* Peter Kreeft
== References ==
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