John Garth (author)

John Garth
Occupation
  • Journalist
  • author
Alma materSt Anne's College, Oxford
Genres
Years active1997–present
Website
www.johngarth.co.uk

John Garth is a British journalist and author, known especially for writings about J. R. R. Tolkien including his biography Tolkien and the Great War and a book on the places that inspired Middle-earth, The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien. He won a 2004 Mythopoeic Award for Scholarship for his work on Tolkien. The biography influenced much Tolkien scholarship in the subsequent decades.