(1886-1945) An intense, imaginative, magnetic person, Charles Williams was a member of the Inklings, the group ofcreative Oxford Christians of the 1930s and 1940s thatincluded C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though heexcelled in many literary genres, Williams is bestremembered for his poetry and his originalfiction--contemporary religious novels filled withsuspense, mystery, and supernatural conflict.
