KATHERINE CHILJAN is an independent scholar who has studied the Shakespeare authorship controversy for over 30 years.
Soon after graduating from UCLA (BA history), she saw a TV debate on the topic, and found that the traditional Shakespeare’s case for authorship weak, and the 17th Earl of Oxford’s case convincing.
Afterward she started doing her own research.
In 2003, she debated English professors on the authorship question at the Smithsonian.
Eventually, she authored Shakespeare Suppressed: The Uncensored Truth About Shakespeare and His Works in 2011 (reprinted 2016); it earned her an award for distinguished scholarship from Concordia University, Portland, OR.
Chiljan was a contributor to Contested Year (2016), which revealed serious errors in a book about King Lear by a prominent Shakespeare professor.