Verlyn Flieger is an author, editor

Editing

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, and professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...

. She teaches courses in comparative mythology

Mythology

The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

, medieval literature and 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,...

.

Flieger holds an M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) from The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...

, and has been associated with the University of Maryland since 1976.

Her best-known books are Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (1983; revised edition, 2002); A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie, which won the 1998 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings

Inklings

The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949. The Inklings were literary enthusiasts who praised the value of narrative in fiction, and encouraged the writing of fantasy...

 studies; and Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (2005).

She won the Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies a second time in 2002 for Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, which she co-edited with Carl Hostetter.

Flieger has also written a young adult fantasy, Pig Tale, and short stories.

With Douglas A. Anderson

Douglas A. Anderson

Douglas Allen Anderson is an author and editor on the subjects of fantasy and medieval literature, specializing in textual analysis of the works of J. R. R...

 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...

, she 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.

Books

Scholarly books written or edited by Verlyn Fleger include:

• Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, 1983
• Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (revised edition), 2002, ISBN 0-8733-8744-9
• A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie, 2001, ISBN 0-8733-8699-X
• Interrupted Music: The Making Of Tolkien's Mythology, 2005, ISBN 0-8733-8824-0
• Smith of Wootton Major
  Smith of Wootton Major
  Smith of Wootton Major, first published in 1967, is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien.-Background:The book began as an attempt to explain the meaning of Faery by means of a story about a cook and his cake. This was intended to be part of a preface by Tolkien to George MacDonald's famous fairy story...
  
  by J.R.R. Tolkien, extended critical edition (editor), 2005, ISBN 0-0072-0247-4
• Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (co-editor with Carl Hostetter), 2000, ISBN 0-3133-0530-7
• Tolkien on Fairy-stories by J.R.R. Tolkien (co-editor with Douglas A. Anderson), 2008, ISBN 0-0072-4466-5
• Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review
  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...
  
  (co-editor), West Virginia University Press
  West Virginia University Press
  West Virginia University Press, sometimes referred to as WVU Press, is a university press that is part of West Virginia University. Founded in the 1960s, WVU Press focuses not only on topics related to West Virginia and Appalachia, but also broader topics, such as Medieval European Studies and...
  
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Novels

• Pig Tale, 2002, ISBN-13: 978-0786807925
• The Inn at Corbies' Caww, forthcoming September 2011

Stories

• "Avilion" in The Doom of Camelot ed. James Lowder 2000
• "Green Hill Country" in Seekers of Dreams ed. Douglas A. Anderson 2005