David C. Downing is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Downing grew up in Colorado, went to college in Santa Barbara, and earned his PhD from UCLA. He currently teaches professional and creative writing at Elizabethtown and serves as English Department Chair.Downing has written four scholarly books on C. S. Lewis: PLANETS IN PERIL (1992), a critical study of the Ransom trilogy; THE MOST RELUCTANT CONVERT (2002), an examination of Lewis's journey to faith; INTO THE WARDROBE (2005), an in-depth overview of the Narnia Chronicles; INTO THE REGION OF AWE (2005), a study of how Lewis's wide reading in Christian mysticism enhanced his own faith and enriched his imaginative writing. Downing also provided a critical introduction and over 300 explanatory notes to the new edition of C. S. Lewis's THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, originally published in 1933 and reissued by Eerdmans in the Wade Center Annotated Edition (2014).Downing is a consulting reader on C. S. Lewis for the Publications of the Modern Languages Association (PMLA), as well as Christian Scholars Review and Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review. He has also served as an editorial consultant for Cambridge University Press and a number of American university presses. Downing is also the author of A SOUTH DIVIDED: PORTRAITS OF DISSENT IN THE CONFEDERACY and LOOKING FOR THE KING (2010), a historical novel in which two young Americans meet Lewis and Tolkien in Oxford in 1940. The Facebook page for LOOKING FOR THE KING contains a number of anecdotes, quotations, and photographs relating to C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and their friends. Downing's college website may be found at http://users.etown.edu/d/downindc/ and his blog is at www.cslewis.com.