About the Editor at Large
DAVID C. DOWNING is the former R. W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College and the Marion E. Wade Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College.
Downing grew up in Colorado, graduated from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, and earned his MA and PhD from UCLA.
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; and 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 four hundred explanatory notes to the new edition of C. S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress, originally published in 1933 and reissued by Eerdmans in the Wade Center Annotated Edition (2014).
Downing previously edited two collections of excerpts from C. S. Lewis: The Reading Life and C. S. Lewis on Writing (and Writers).
Downing currently resides in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife, Crystal, who is also an English professor and a published author.