Wayne G. Hammond, born in 1953, is an American librarian and Tolkien scholar who served for decades as the Chapin Librarian of rare books at Williams College in Massachusetts. He earned his English degree at Baldwin-Wallace College and a master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan.
Hammond is one of the foremost authorities on the texts and publication history of J. R. R. Tolkien. His J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography, published in 1993, remains a standard reference. With his wife and collaborator Christina Scull he has produced many of the essential works of Tolkien scholarship.
Together Hammond and Scull wrote J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, the two-volume J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, and the art books The Art of The Hobbit and The Art of The Lord of the Rings. They have also edited several of Tolkien's own works directly from his manuscripts, including the recent Collected Poems.
The pair have won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies several times. The Tolkien scholar John Garth describes them as two highly regarded veterans of Tolkien studies.
