David C. Downing

DAVID C. DOWNING is the R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College and Co-director of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, with four scholarly books on C. S. Lewis to his name. His recent books include A South Divided: Portraits of Dissent in the Confederacy and Planets in Peril.

Downing’s book Planets in Peril was named an Outstanding Book of the Year by the American Library Association and received the Mythopoeic Society’s Book of the Year award. A South Divided was nominated for the Lincoln Award sponsored by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

Downing holds a BA from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, and an MA and PhD from UCLA.

David C. Downing’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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