Walter Hooper
[1] Reading Lewis's Miracles during a subsequent spell of military service prompted him to write a fan letter, which led to their becoming pen friends.[1] Severely debilitated by osteoporosis and kidney failure, Lewis offered Hooper a job as his correspondence secretary, and Hooper spent the next few months typing out the letters that Lewis dictated in reply to the enormous volume of mail that he received from readers around the world.[3][4] In addition to his literary work, Hooper also had a religious vocation: he studied for the Anglican ministry at St Stephen's House, Oxford[5] and was ordained as a deacon in 1964 and as a priest in 1965.[10] In 1977, Hooper published C. S. Lewis's unfinished science fiction novel The Dark Tower, an abandoned sequel to his interplanetary trilogy.[13][14] Lewis's stepson Douglas Gresham has also rejected Lindskoog's claims: "The whole controversy thing was engineered for very personal reasons….