The C. S. Lewis Institute in Annandale, Va., was founded in 1976.

Will Vaus of Monterey, Va., is the author of Mere Theology: A Guide to the Thought of C.S. Lewis (InterVarsity Press, 2004). He led a Narnia retreat Oct. 21-25, 2005. Vaus is the president of Will Vaus Ministries.

Don King is a professor of English at Montreat College in Montreat, N.C., who specializes in Lewis. He is the author of C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (Kent State University Press, 2001). King edits the Christian Scholar’s Review.

The New York C.S. Lewis Society was founded in 1969 and is the world’s oldest society for the appreciation and discussion of Lewis.

Wesley A. Kort is a religion professor at Duke University in Durham, N.C., who wrote C.S. Lewis: Then and Now (Oxford University Press, 2001).

David C. Downing is the R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster County, Pa., and the author of four books on C.S. Lewis, including Into the Wardrobe: C.S. Lewis & the Narnia Chronicles (Jossey Bass, 2005) and Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C.S. Lewis (Intervarsity Press, 2005).

Peter J. Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College who specializes in Lewis and has written frequently about him. Kreeft’s books include C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium (Ignatius Press, 1994).

Bruce Edwards is professor of English at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, and specializes in Lewis. His books on Lewis include Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual World of Narnia (Tyndale, September 2005) and Further Up and Further In: Understanding C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Broadman and Holman, September 2005). Edwards maintains the C.S. […]

Peter J. Schakel is a professor of English at Hope College in Holland, Mich., and specializes in Lewis. Schakel’s books on Lewis include, as author, The Way Into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide (Eerdmans, July 2005) and Imagination and the Arts in C. S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds (University of Missouri Press, 2002).