The Mythopoeic Society announces the death of their founder, Glen Howard GoodKnight III, on 3 November 2010. Born in 1941, he had been in declining health for several years.
The funeral services will be open to all, this Saturday, 13 November, promptly at 11AM at Rosehills Cemetary, 3888 Workman Mill Road, Whittier, California 90501.
GoodKnight’s family has suggested that donations be made to the Mythopoeic Society in lieu of flowers. The Council of Stewards, on which Glen served for many decades, has renamed the Starving Scholars Fund in Glen’s memory. The Society says “We believe that Glen, who valued and encouraged Inklings scholarship before the field of Inklings studies existed, would be pleased to be remembered this way.”
The November 2010 issue of Mythprint will contain remembrances, and all who knew him are encouraged to contribute, to mythprint [at] mythsoc [dot] org.
GoodKnight founded the organization in 1967, and later merged it with the Tolkien Society. He edited the organization’s journal, Mythlore for 78 issues between 1970 and 1998.
The Mythopoeic Society is an international organization promoting the study, discussion, and enjoyment of fantastic and mythopoeic literature through books and periodicals, annual conferences, discussion groups, awards, and more. They are especially interested in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams, prominent members of the informal Oxford literary circle known as the “Inklings”.