More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them

In More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them, some of the best writers in the Christian community discuss their formative creative influences. Madeleine L'Engle pays tribute to George MacDonald, fantasy writer Stephen Lawhead extols the contributions of J.R.R. Tolkien and Harold Fickett revisits Flannery O'Connor. This collection, which was edited by James Calvin Schaap and compiled and introduced by Philip Yancey, is a reflective and generous homage to literary greatness. Other contributors include Richard Foster, Walter Wangerin Jr., Virginia Stem Owens and Calvin Miller.