A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS ABOUT C. S. LEWIS

Compiled by Peter J. Schakel, Hope College

(Items recommended as starting points are indicated with an asterisk.)


PERIODICALS

CSL: The Bulletin of the New York C. S. Lewis Society.
Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literature und Aesthetik
Journal of the Portland C. S. Lewis Society.
The Lamp-post: Bulletin of the Southern California C. S. Lewis Society.
Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams Studies.
Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review.

MAJOR WEBSITES


Into the Wardrobe: A C. S. Lewis Web Site [Includes links to other Lewis sites.]
C. S. Lewis: 20th-Century Christian Knight
C. S. Lewis Society of California
The New York C. S. Lewis Society
CSLewis.com
Narnia.com 
A C. S. Lewis & the Inklings Resource Blog

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Christopher, J. R., and Joan K. Ostling. C. S. Lewis: An Annotated Checklist. 1974.
Hooper, Walter. “A Bibliography of the Writings of C. S. Lewis,” in C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide. 1996.
Lowenberg, Susan. C. S. Lewis: A Reference Guide: 1972-1988. 1993.

REFERENCE WORKS

Bell, James Stuart. From the Library of C. S. Lewis: Selections from Writers Who Influenced His Spiritual Journey. 2004.
Duriez, Colin. The C. S. Lewis Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to His Life, Thought, and Writings. 1990.
Duriez, Colin. The C. S. Lewis Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to His Life, Thought, and Writings. 2000.
Duriez, Colin, and David Porter. The Inklings Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and Their Friends. 2001.
Goffar, Janine. C. S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop. 1995.
Edwards, Bruce L., ed. C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy. 4 vol. 2007.
*Hooper, Walter. C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide. 1996.
Martindale, Wayne, and Jerry Root, eds. The Quotable C. S. Lewis. 1989.
McLaughlin, Sara Park, and Mark O. Webb. A Word Index to the Poetry of C. S. Lewis. 1988.
*Schultz, Jeffrey D., and John G. West, Jr., eds. C. S. Lewis: A Reader’s Encyclopedia. 1998.


BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS

Arnott, Anne. The Secret Country of C. S. Lewis. 1975.
Barratt, David. C. S. Lewis and His World. 1987.
Bleakley, David. C. S. Lewis: At Home in Ireland. 1998.
Bramlett, Perry, and Ronald W. Higdon. Touring C. S. Lewis’s Ireland and England. 1998.
Carpenter, Humphrey. The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends. 1979.
*Como, James T., ed. C. S. Lewis at the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences. 1979.
Coren, Michael. The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis. 1994.
*Downing, David C. The Most Reluctant Convert: C. S. Lewis’s Journey to Faith. 2002.
Duriez, Colin. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship. 2003.
Gilbert, Douglas, and Clyde S. Kilby. C. S. Lewis: Images of his World. 1973.
Gilchrist, K. J. A Morning After War: C. S. Lewis and WWI. 2005.
Gormley, Beatrice. C. S. Lewis: Christian and Storyteller. 1998.
Graham, David, ed. We Remember C. S. Lewis: Essays and Memoirs. 2001.
Green, Roger Lancelyn. C. S. Lewis. 1963.
Green, Roger Lancelyn, and Walter Hooper. C. S. Lewis: A Biography. 1974.
Gresham, Douglas. Jack’s Life: The Life Story of C. S. Lewis. 2005.
Griffin, William. Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life. 1986.
Harwood, Laurence. C. S. Lewis, My Godfather.  2007.
Hooper, Walter. Through Joy and Beyond: A Pictorial Biography of C. S. Lewis. 1982.
*Jacobs, Alan. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis. 2005.
Kilby, Clyde S., and Marjorie Lamp Mead, eds. Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis. 1982.
Lawlor, John. C. S. Lewis: Memories and Reflections. 1998.
*Sayer, George. Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times. 1988.
Schofield, Stephen, ed. In Search of C. S. Lewis. 1983.
Wilson, A. N. C. S. Lewis: A Biography. 1990.

ON SHADOWLANDS

Dorsett, Lyle W. And God Came In. [Biography of Joy Davidman; reissued as A Love Observed: Joy Davidman’s Life and Marriage
      to C. S. Lewis.] 1983.
Gresham, Douglas H. Lenten Lands: My Childhood with Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewis. 1988.
Kreeft, Peter, ed. Shadow-Lands of C. S. Lewis: The Man behind the Movie. 1994.
Nicholson, William. Shadowlands. 1989.
Sibley, Brian. C. S. Lewis through the Shadowlands. 1985.


GENERAL STUDIES

Adey, Lionel. C. S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor. 1998.
Barfield, Owen. Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis. Ed. G. B. Tennyson. 1989.
Christopher, Joe R. C. S. Lewis. 1987.
Como, James. Branches to Heaven: The Geniuses of C. S. Lewis. 1998.
Freshwater, Mark Edwards. C. S. Lewis and the Truth of Myth. 1988.
Gibb, Jocelyn, ed. Light on C. S. Lewis. 1965.
*Glyer, Diana Pavlac. The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community. 2007.
*Hannay, Margaret Patterson. C. S. Lewis. 1981.
Hart, Dabney Adams. Through the Open Door: A New Look at C. S. Lewis. 1984.
Keefe, Carolyn, ed. C. S. Lewis: Speaker and Teacher. 1971.
*Kilby, Clyde S. The Christian World of C. S. Lewis. 1964.
Kilby, Clyde S. Images of Salvation in the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. 1978.
Kreeft, Peter. Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere beyond Death with John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, and
      Aldous Huxley. 1982.
Kreeft, Peter. C. S. Lewis. 1969.
Lindskoog, Kathryn. The C. S. Lewis Hoax. 1988.
Lindskoog, Kathryn A. C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian. 1973. 4th ed., 1997.
Lindskoog, Kathryn. Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C. S. Lewis. 1994.
Lindskoog, Kathryn. Sleuthing C. S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands. 2001.
Lindvall, Terry. Surprised by Laughter: The Comic World of C. S. Lewis. 1996.
Markos, Louis. Lewis Agonistes: How C. S. Lewis Can Train Us to Wrestle with the Modern and Postmodern World. 2003.
Milward, Peter, S. J. A Challenge to C. S. Lewis. 1995.
Peters, John. C. S. Lewis: The Man and His Achievement. 1985.
Peters, Thomas. Simply C. S. Lewis: A Beginner's Guide to His Life and Works. 1997.
Tadie, Andrew A., and Michael H. Macdonald, eds. G. K. Chesterton and C. S. Lewis: The Riddle of Joy. 1989.
Tripp, Raymond P., Jr., ed. Man’s “Natural Powers”: Essays for and about C. S. Lewis. 1975.
Vander Elst, Philip. Thinkers of Our Time: C. S. Lewis. 1996.
Walker, Andrew, and James Patrick, eds. A Christian for All Christians: Essays in Honour of C. S. Lewis. 1990.
Walsh, Chad. C. S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics. 1949.


ON LEWIS’S RELIGIOUS/PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS

Adey, Lionel. C. S. Lewis's “Great War” with Owen Barfield. 1978.
Aeschliman, Michael D. The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism. 1983.
Baggett, David G., and Gary R. Habermas, ed. C. S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness and Beauty. 2008.
Beversluis, John. C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion. 1985.
Bramlett, Perry. C. S. Lewis: Life at the Center. 1996.
Carnell, Corbin S. Bright Shadow of Reality: C. S. Lewis and the Feeling Intellect. 1974.
Christensen, Michael J. C. S. Lewis on Scripture. 1979.
Clark, David G. C. S. Lewis: A Guide to His Theology. 2007.
Cunningham, Richard B. C. S. Lewis: Defender of the Faith. 1967.
Derrick, Christopher. C. S. Lewis and the Church of Rome. 1981.
Dorsett, Lyle. Seeking the Secret Place: The Spiritual Formation of C. S. Lewis. 2004.
Downing, David C. Into the Region of Awe: Mysticism in C. S. Lewis. 2005.
Glaspey, Terry W. Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C. S. Lewis. 1996.
Griffin, William. C. S. Lewis: Spirituality for Mere Christians. 1998.
Harries, Richard. C. S. Lewis: The Man and His God. 1987.
Holmer, Paul L. C. S. Lewis: The Shape of His Faith and Thought. 1976.
Kort, Wesley A. C. S. Lewis, Then and Now. 2001.
Kreeft, Peter. C. S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on The Abolition of Man. 1994.
Lindsley, Art. C. S. Lewis’s Case for Christ: Insights from Reason, Imagination, and Faith. 2005.
Martindale, Wayne. Beyond the Shadowlands: C. S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell. 2005.
*Meilaender, Gilbert. The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. 1978.
Menuge, Angus J. L., ed. C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands—The Evangelistic Vision of C. S. Lewis. 1997.
Mills, David, ed. The Pilgrim’s Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness. 1998.
Mueller, Steven P. Not a Tame God: Christ in the Writings of C. S. Lewis. 2002.
Nicholi, Armand M., Jr. The Question of God: C. S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life. 2002.
Payne, Leanne. Real Presence: The Holy Spirit in the Works of C. S. Lewis. 1979.
Purtill, Richard L. C. S. Lewis's Case for the Christian Faith. 1981.
Reilly, R. J. Romantic Religion: A Study of Owen Barfield, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J. R. R. Tolkien. 1971.
Reppert, Victor. C. S. Lewis’s Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason. 2003.
*Schakel, Peter J. Is Your Lord Large Enough?  How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God.  2008
*Smith, Robert H. Patches of Godlight: The Pattern of Thought of C. S. Lewis. 1981.
*Vaus, Will. Mere Theology: A Guide to the Thought of C. S. Lewis. 2004.
Velarde, Robert. Conversations with C. S. Lewis: Imaginative Discussions about Life, Christianity and God. 2008.
White, William L. The Image of Man in C. S. Lewis. 1969.
Wielenberg, Erik J. God and the Reach of Reason: C.S. Lewis, David Hume, and Bertrand Russell. 2007.
Willis, John Randolph, S. J. Pleasures Forevermore: The Theology of C. S. Lewis. 1983.


ON LEWIS'S LITERARY CRITICISM

*Edwards, Bruce L., Jr. A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis’s Defense of Western Literacy. 1986.
Martin, Thomas L., ed. Reading the Classics with C. S. Lewis. 2000.


ON LEWIS’S LITERARY WORKS

*Edwards, Bruce L., ed. The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Reader, Critic, and Imaginative Writer. 1988.
Filmer, Kath. The Fiction of C. S. Lewis: Mask and Mirror. 1993.
*Gibson, Evan K. C. S. Lewis, Spinner of Tales: A Guide to His Fiction. 1980.
*Glover, Donald E. C. S. Lewis: The Art of Enchantment. 1981.
Gray, William. C. S. Lewis. 1998.
Hillegas, Mark R., ed. Shadows of Imagination: The Fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. 1969.
Holbrook, David. The Skeleton in the Wardrobe—C. S. Lewis’s Fantasies: A Phenomenological Study. 1991.
Howard, Thomas. The Achievement of C. S. Lewis: A Reading of his Fiction. [Reissued as C. S. Lewis: Man of Letters.] 1980.
Huttar, Charles A., ed. Imagination and the Spirit: Essays in Literature and the Christian Faith presented to Clyde S. Kilby. 1971.
Manlove, C. N. C. S. Lewis: His Literary Achievement. 1987.
Marshall, Cynthia, ed. Essays on C. S. Lewis and George MacDonald: Truth, Fiction, and the Power of Imagination. 1991.
Musacchio, George. C. S. Lewis: Man and Writer. 1994.
*Myers, Doris T. C. S. Lewis in Context. 1994.
Purtill, Richard L. Lord of the Elves and Eldils: Fantasy and Philosophy in C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. 1974.
*Schakel, Peter J., ed. The Longing for a Form: Essays on the Fiction of C. S. Lewis. 1977.
Schakel, Peter J., and Charles A. Huttar, eds. Word and Story in C. S. Lewis. 1991.
Urang, Gunnar. Shadows of Heaven: Religion and Fantasy in the Writing of C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and J. R. R. Tolkien. 1971.
Walsh, Chad. The Literary Legacy of C. S. Lewis. 1979.
Watson, George, ed. Critical Essays on C. S. Lewis. 1992.


ON LEWIS’S POETRY

Kawano, Roland M. C. S. Lewis: Always a Poet. 2004.
*King, Don W. C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse. 2001.



ON THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

Arthur, Sarah. Walking through the Wardrobe: A Devotional Quest into The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 2005.
Baehr, Ted, and James Baehr. Narnia Beckons: C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Beyond. 2005.
Bassham, Gregory, and Jerry L. Walls. The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview. 2005.
Brown. Devin. Inside Narnia:  A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.  2005.
Brown, Devin. Inside Prince Caspian: A Guide to Exploring the Return to Narnia.2008.
Brunner, Kurt, and Jim Ware. Finding God in the Land of Narnia. 2005.
Caughey, Shanna, ed. Revisiting Narnia: Fantasy, Myth and Religion in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles. 2005.
Ditchfield, Christin. A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia. 2003.
*Downing, David C. Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles. 2005.
Duriez, Colin. A Field Guide to Narnia. 2004.
Edwards, Bruce. Further Up and Further In: Understanding C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 2005.
Edwards, Bruce L. Not a Tame Lion. 2005.
*Ford, Paul F. Companion to Narnia. 1980. 4th edition, revised, 1994. Pocket Companion, 2005.
Hooper, Walter. Past Watchful Dragons: The Narnian Chronicles of C. S. Lewis. 1979.
Karkainen, Paul A. Narnia Explored. 1979.
Kopp, Heather, with David Kopp. ROAR: A Christian Family Guide to the Chronicles of Narnia. 2005.
Lindskoog, Kathryn. The Lion of Judah in Never-Never Land. 1973.
Lindskoog, Kathryn. Journey Into Narnia. 1998.
Manlove, Colin. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Patterning of a Fantastic World. 1993.
McLaughlin, Sara. Meeting God in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Christian Themes in C. S. Lewis’s Book. 2005.
*Ryken, Leland, and Marjorie Lamp Mead. A Reader’s Guide Through the Wardrobe: Exploring C. S. Lewis’s Classic Story. 2005.
*Ryken, Leland, and Marjorie Lamp Mead. A Reader’s Guide to Caspian: A Journey into C. S. Lewis’s Narnia. 2008.
Sammons, Martha C. A Guide through Narnia. 1979.
Schakel, Peter J. Reading with the Heart: The Way into Narnia. 1979. [Available on line]
*Schakel, Peter J. The Way into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide. 2005.
Smith, Mark Eddy. Aslan’s Call: Finding Our Way to Narnia. 2005.
Veith, Gene. The Soul of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. 2005.
Velarde, Robert. The Lion, the Witch and the Bible: Good and Evil in the Classic Tales of C. S. Lewis. 2005.
Wagner, Richard. C. S. Lewis and Narnia for Dummies. 2005.
*Ward, Michael. Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis. 2007.
Williams, Thomas. The Heart of the Chronicles of Narnia: Knowing God Here by Finding Him There. 2005.


ON THE RANSOM TRILOGY

*Downing, David C. Planets in Peril: A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy. 1992.
Lobdell, Jared. The Scientifiction Novels of C. S. Lewis: Space and Time in the Ransom Stories. 2004.
Murphy, Brian. C. S. Lewis. Starmont Reader's Guide, 14. [On the Ransom trilogy.] 1983.
Sammons, Martha. A Guide through C. S. Lewis' Space Trilogy. 1980.


ON TILL WE HAVE FACES

Donaldson, Mara E. Holy Places Are Dark Places: C. S. Lewis and Paul Ricoeur on Narrative Transformation. 1988.
Myers, Doris T. Bareface: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s Last Novel. 2004. [A good follow-up to Schakel’s study.]
*Schakel, Peter J. Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis: A Study of Till We Have Faces. 1984. [Available on line]
Starr, Nathan. Commentary on C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces. 1968.


ON THE PILGRIM’S REGRESS

Lindskoog, Kathryn. Finding the Landlord: A Guidebook to C. S. Lewis's Pilgrim's Regress.  1995.