Douglas Allen Anderson is an author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 and editor

Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...

 on the subjects of fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 and medieval literature, specializing in textual analysis of the works of J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...

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His first published book was The Annotated Hobbit (1988), which grew out of a study of the revisions made by Tolkien to the various editions of The Hobbit

The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...

following the publication of The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings is a high fantasy epic written by English philologist and University of Oxford professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier, less complex children's fantasy novel The Hobbit , but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in...

. The Annotated Hobbit won the Mythopoeic Award for scholarship. A revised edition was published in 2002.

Anderson's textual studies of The Lord of the Rings are the core of the Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an educational and trade publisher in the United States. Headquartered in Boston's Back Bay, it publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults.-History:The company was...

 revised American edition of 1987, incorporating various changes made to British editions at Tolkien's direction. He also contributed a "Note on the Text" discussing the history of these changes, which was subsequently incorporated into later editions with various minor revisions.

With Verlyn Flieger

Verlyn Flieger

Verlyn Flieger is an author, editor, and professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She teaches courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien....

 and Michael D. C. Drout

Michael D. C. Drout

Michael D. C. Drout is the Prentice Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Wheaton College and an author and editor specializing in Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy, especially the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula K. Le Guin.Drout holds a...

, he is co-editor of Tolkien Studies

Tolkien Studies

Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review is an academic journal publishing papers on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D. C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger. It states that it is the first scholarly journal published by an academic press in the area of Tolkien...

: An Annual Scholarly Review, (Volume 1, 2004; Volume 2, 2005; Volume 3, 2006; Volume 4, 2007; Volume 5, 2008; and Volume 6, 2009).

Anderson has also edited modern editions of works by other fantasists including Leonard Cline

Leonard Cline

Leonard Lanson Cline was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and journalist.Born in Bay City, Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, was married in 1913, published his first book of poetry, Poems, in 1914 and worked for The Detroit News 1916-1922...

, Kenneth Morris and William Hope Hodgson

William Hope Hodgson

William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his...

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Books

Books written or edited by Douglas Anderson include:

• The Annotated Hobbit, 1988
• The Chalchiuhite Dragon by Kenneth Morris, 1992
• The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Weird Tales by Leonard Cline
  Leonard Cline
  Leonard Lanson Cline was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and journalist.Born in Bay City, Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, was married in 1913, published his first book of poetry, Poems, in 1914 and worked for The Detroit News 1916-1922...
  
  , 1992
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (Winchester Bibliographies of 20th Century Writers) (with Wayne G. Hammond), 1993
• The Dragon Path: Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris, 1995
• The Marvellous Land of Snergs
  The Marvellous Land of Snergs
  The Marvellous Land of Snergs is a children's fantasy, written by Edward Wyke Smith and published in 1927. It was illustrated by the Punch cartoonist George Morrow. It is noted as an inspiration source for Tolkien's The Hobbit.-Plot summary:...
  
  by E. A. Wyke-Smith, 1995
• The Life of Sir Aglovale de Galis, 2000
• Eyes of the God: The Weird Fiction and Poetry of R. H. Barlow, 2002
• The Annotated Hobbit (revised edition), 2002, ISBN 0-6181-3470-0
• Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy, 2003
• Book of The Three Dragons by Kenneth Morris, 2004
• Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 1, 2004 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 0-9370-5887-4
• 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
• Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 2, 2005 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-9332-0203-3
• Seekers of Dreams: Masterpieces of Fantasy, 2005
• The Dark Chamber
  The Dark Chamber
  The Dark Chamber is a 1927 horror novel by Leonard Cline. It was praised by H.P.Lovecraft as a masterpiece of weird literature in his book Supernatural Horror in Literature....
  
  by Leonard Cline
  Leonard Cline
  Leonard Lanson Cline was an American novelist, poet, short story writer, and journalist.Born in Bay City, Michigan, he attended the University of Michigan, was married in 1913, published his first book of poetry, Poems, in 1914 and worked for The Detroit News 1916-1922...
  
  , Cold Spring Press, 2005
• The 100 Best Writers of Fantasy & Horror, 2006 (never published)
• Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 3, 2006 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1-9332-0210-6
• Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 4, 2007 (co-editor), West Virginia University Press, ISBN 1933202262
• Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction, 2008, ISBN 9780345498908
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Interviews, Reminiscences, and Other Essays (forthcoming)