The two authors who probably influenced Kate's early writing the most were C. S. Lewis and  J.R.R.Tolkien.  When Kate was in a convent boarding school in 1954,  Mother Superior, who was also her English teacher, told her class  that her close friend C.S. Lewis had just telephoned  her with a request. He asked if she and her students would be willing to read  a new book by an Oxford colleague that was about to be published and give their honest more...

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