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. It is obviously a well-researched labor of love ... It is a dense book but reads easily, especially for those who admire the work of Williams and his contemporaries ... Lindop has accomplished a Herculean feat by depicting this controversial man within the context of English history.