by Bryan H. Wildenthal
Lynne Kositsky, the admired poet, author, and Oxfordian scholar, was honored with the Tom Regnier Veritas Award on Saturday, October 9, at the conclusion of the 2021 SOF Annual Conference.
Lynne was named Oxfordian of the Year in 2006. Based in part on her independent research, she co-authored with Professor Roger Stritmatter a major book of Shakespearean scholarship: On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (2013). Her other honors include the E.J. Pratt Medal and Award for Poetry and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Youth.
In accepting this new honor on behalf of Lynne, Professor Stritmatter noted that her “deep contributions to the Oxfordian movement have yet to achieve their full recognition.” He quoted from a moving personal tribute by Lynne that she wrote about the late Tom Regnier. Lynne stated, about Tom: “We shall not look upon your like again.”
For more information about the Tom Regnier Veritas Award, please click here. The SOF Board of Trustees created this new award earlier this year to honor the memory of our beloved late president Tom Regnier. Lynne is the second recipient of this high honor. The inaugural recipient, on April 10, 2021, was SOF Website Design and Technology Editor Jennifer Newton.
Lynne’s books for young readers include Candles, Rebecca’s Flame, Claire by Moonlight, and the Oxfordian historical novel A Question of Will.
Lynne and her husband, composer Michael Kositsky — both beloved members of the Oxfordian community — have written a musical version of A Question of Will, which received a staged reading at the SOF Annual Conference in Boston in 2016.
