Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother: A Life of Warren Hamilton Lewis (released January 2023) by Don King provides a detailed look at C.S. Lewis’s brother. In this podcast interview with William O’Flaherty, Don talks about the first every full biography on the man known as “Warnie” to his friends. While the focus is on Warnie, …
Read the full post →“(PODCAST) Inkling, Historian, Soldier, and Brother (Dr. Don King)”
The following is a plenary talk from the Inklings Fellowship’s An Inklings Week in Oxford. This one is by Dr. Don King. His title was “Warnie Lewis and WWI.” It was given at St. Giles Church on Friday, July 22, 2016. Please note that the video was NOT professionally recorded. It was done by me using …
Read the full post →“(Video) Dr. Don King – “Warnie Lewis and WWI””
The women surrounding C.S. Lewis is often a mystery to even the serious reader of his works. Apart from Lewis’ mother and wife, Ruth Pitter stands as one of the most significant women in his life. You might know she was a poet, but did you know how much she helped Lewis with his poetry? Also, …
While in Oxford last week I visited the famous Addison’s Walk. It is on the grounds at Magdalen, where Lewis taught for nearly 30 years. I was there attending the Inklings Week that the Inklings Fellowship organized. Dr. Don King was doing an informal tour of Magdalen and when we arrived at the place where …
Read the full post →“What the Bird Said Early in the Year – Reading by Dr. Don King”
2015 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Joy Davidman, C.S. Lewis’s wife. It just so happens that Dr. Don King has two new books this year (one not yet released at the time of this posting) related to her. A Naked Tree (the one currently available) is actually edited by Don and is a …
Read the full post →“A Naked Tree/Yet One More Spring (Dr. Don King)”
Back in 2012 I did my first interview with Dr. Don King. It was on the 2009 book entitled Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman. This is the first time I’ve reposted the interview since I’ve had my podcast at the Podbean location. In this chat I also had Don answer some questions …
Read the full post →“Out of My Bone – The Letters of Joy Davidman (Dr. Don King)”
Some Lewis readers are unaware that he wrote poetry (or at best are uninterested in it). Dr. Don King, editor of The Collected Poems of C.S. Lewis: A Critical Edition, believes such individuals are missing out on not only gaining a better understanding of the author, but they are also depriving themselves of some great writings. William …
Read the full post →“The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis (Dr. Don King)”
If you have read a variety of writings from Lewis, Tolkien and their friends Charles Williams and Owen Barfield, then you know they had more than a passing interest in King Arthur. In the following podcast learn about a new book, edited by Sørina Higgins that explores the latest viewpoints on their Arthurian literature. This massive …
Read the full post →“[PODCAST] The Inklings and King Arthur (Sørina Higgins)”
What can a person learn about how to improve one’s writing from C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien? That was the subject Dr. Don King and Dr. Hal Poe addressed in a session I moderated to kick off a Creative Writing Festival held for high school students at Montreat College on March 31, 2017. This was held …
Read the full post →“Writing Tips from Lewis and Tolkien (King and Poe)”
The focus of this podcast is a talk that Dr. Donald Williams gave recently that was a paper presented at Taylor University earlier this year as part of the 9th Frances White Ewbank Colloquium on C.S. Lewis & Friends. Dr. Williams explores the challenges faced when consider Lewis as a theologian. The material is the ground work for a book he is working and in it he share why such an examination is needed.
