David C. Downing is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous articles on C. S. Lewis, and his Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy (University of Massachusetts Press) was named one of the five best books yet published on Lewis by the "C. S. Lewis and the Inklings Homepage." His The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis's Journey to Faith was named one of Booklist's Best Religion Books for 2002 and was a 2003 ECPA Gold Medallion finalist. Downing was also awarded the Clyde S. Kilby Re...