Description: A lively and readable literary biography of a remarkable personality who was a central member of the Inklings, this book rediscovers the dramatic and contradictory life of a brilliant writer and publisher from a poor London background who became a ground-breaking theologian, fantasy novelist and poet.
Review Quotes: "In Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, Grevel Lindop has written a page-turner. He proves himself a master of the biographical narrative. He knows how to end chapters and sections of chapters with cliffhangers. He liberally employs the ironic slant, and he has an eye for visuals. Lindop's preface, a model of balanced prose, sets the volume's tone." --Philip Irving Mitchell, Religion and the Arts
"I stand in awe of the achievement this book represents. I cannot thank Grevel Lindop enough for accepting the challenge of writing The Third Inkling and tracing, insofar as possible, the life of this admittedly strange and incontestably gifted man. Lindop has written what will surely stand as the biography of record of Charles Walter Stansby Williams." --Rev. Nancy E. Topolewski, VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center