Kathyrn Lindskoog,
Author of The C.S. Lewis Hoax, Light in the Shadowlands, and Dante's Divine Comedy: Journey to Joy
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Vita:

Inclusion in:
Contemporary Authors,
Who's Who in the West,
World Who's Who of Women,
Who's Who in American Women,
Dictionary of International Biography,and
Columbia Encyclopedia (under "C. S. Lewis").

ORIGIN
Kathryn Lindskoog was born in Petaluma, California, in 1934. Her father, John Stillwell, was a retired U. S. Navy bandmaster. She grew up in Novato, California; Tustin, California; San Diego, California; Burns Flat, Oklahoma; and Santa Ana, California.

EDUCATION
She received her BA, magna cum laude, at the University of Redlands in 1956. She also received an academic scholarship to a University of London summer school in 1956. She received her MA, magna cum laude, at California State University at Long Beach in 1957. She took a Chapman University academic credit tour of Europe and Russia in 1960.

THESIS:   "The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land."

C. S. Lewis's 1957 handwritten response to  Lindskoog's thesis:

"You are in the center of the target everywhere.  For one thing, you know my work better than anyone I've met; certainly better than I do myself. . .  But secondly, you (alone of all the critics I've met) realize the connection or even the unity of all the books--scholarly, fantastic, theological--and make me appear a single author, not a man who impersonates half a dozen authors which is what I seem to most.  This wins really very high marks indeed.  If you understand me so well you will understand other authors too."

TEACHING CAREER

Teacher of English, grades 9-12, at Orange High School, 1957-1964.

Adjunct instructor at Rancho Santiago College, 1982-1987, teaching World literature, English literature, Creative writing, Modern American novel, Children's literature, Composition, Grammar, and English as a second language.

Adjunct instructor for credit courses at these institutions:
Chapman College, 1976;
New Orleans Baptist Seminary, 1979;
New College, Berkeley,1979;
Fuller Theological Seminary, 1975, 1980, 1987;
Seattle Pacific University, 1981;
Biola University, 1983, 1987-1988; and
Simon Greenleaf School of Law, 1989.

Other educational activities (aside from publishing seven sets of curriculum) include teaching the Bethel Bible Series, 1967-1968; leading a one-week study retreat at St. Andrews Benedictine Priory, 1974; lecturing in Detroit, Michigan; Walla Walla, Washington; Portland, Oregon; Oakland, California; Berkeley, California; Bel Air, California; San Diego, California; and other cities; appearing on radio and television; presenting papers at conferences of the Mythopoeic Society and the Conference on Christianity and Literature; serving on panels; and leading seminars and workshops.  

FAMILY
Married to John S. Lindskoog in 1959.
Sons: Jonathan Cooper Lindskoog, born in 1964,
and Peter Christopher Lindskoog, born in 1968.

HEALTH
Muliple Sclerosis became disabling in the 1960s, severely limiting a teaching career that has spanned secondary school, undergraduate courses, and graduate school. In the 1980s Lindskoog became completely paraplegic, and in the 1990s she became a housebound invalid requiring 24-hour-a-day care.