Clyde Kilby
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Clyde S. Kilby is best known as a literary scholar of CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien. He was born in Tennessee and educated at the University of Arkansas, the University of Minnesota and New York University. He became a professor of English at Wheaton College in 1935 where he taught until his retirement. He was the founder of the Wade Center at Wheaton. Dr. Kilby died in 1986 at the age of 84. His book ”The Christian World of C. S. Lewis” is widely regarded as one of the best introductions to Lewis’s work.
Awarded ”Illinois Author of the Year” by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English in 1973.
A mind awake; | Images of salvation in the fiction of C.S. Lewis / | Letters to an American Lady | Minority of one : | Poetry and life; | The Christian world of C.S. Lewis / | Tolkien & the Silmarillion /