Critically acclaimed award-winning biography of CS Lewis JRR Tolkien & the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War CS Lewis JRR Tolkien & their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during & after the Second World War They drank beer on Tuesdays at the Bird & Baby' & on Thursday nights they met in Lewis' Magdalen College rooms to read aloud from the books they were writing; jokingly they called themselves The Inklings' CS Lewis & JRR Tolkien first introduced The Screwtape Letters & The Lord of the Rings to an audience in this company & Charles Williams poet & writer of supernatural thrillers was another prominent member of the group Humphrey Carpenter who wrote the acclaimed biography of JRR Tolkien draws upon unpublished letters & diaries to which he was given special access in this engrossing story