Hear Diana Glyer's talk on "Lewis, Tolkien & the Inklings" at the C.S. Lewis Symposium on the morning of November 7, 2019.
Diana is a United States author, speaker, and teacher whose work centers on C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Inklings.
She received a B.S. in Education and a B.A. in English and Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University. She received her master's degree in Education from Northern Illinois University, and her Ph.D in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Glyer has published widely, including contributions to The Pilgrim's Guide: C. S. Lewis and the Art of Witness, edited by David Mills; The C. S. Lewis Reader's Encyclopedia, edited by Jeffrey D. Schultz and John G. West, Jr.; and C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy, edited by Bruce L. Edwards. She co-edited, with David Weeks, The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities. She is a featured author on HarperCollins' HarperOne C.S. Lewis Blog.
Her best-known work is The Company They Keep, which describes the interaction and creative influence of Lewis, Tolkien and the Inklings. It features an appendix by scholar David Bratman. Published in 2007, the book overturned assumptions held for the past 30 years. It was recognized as a landmark study. The Company They Keep won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (Inklings Studies) and was a finalist for the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Related Work at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention.
Glyer is also the author of Clay in the Potter's Hands (2011) and Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings (2016).