David C. Downing is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Downing has written numerous articles and reviews on C. S. Lewis, as well as four books:

1. • Planets in Peril (University of Massachusetts Press, 1992), a critical study of the Ransom trilogy;
   
   

2. • The Most Reluctant Convert (InterVarsity, 2002), an examination of Lewis’s journey to faith;
   
   

3. • Into the Wardrobe (Jossey-Bass, 2005), an in-depth overview of the Narnia Chronicles;
   
   

4. • Into the Region of Awe (InterVarsity, 2005), a study of how Lewis’s wide reading in Christian mysticism enhanced his own faith and enriched his imaginative writings.
   

Downing serves as a consulting editor on Lewis for Christian Scholars Review, Christianity and Literature, and Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review. His most recent book is A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy (Cumberland Press, 2007). His college website may be found at http://users.etown.edu/d/downindc/.

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