Joseph Pearce is the author of best-selling biographies of major Christian literary figures, such as Shakespeare, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Oscar Wilde. His biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the coveted Pollock Award for Christian Biography. He is editor of the St. Austin Review (www.staustinreview.org) executive director of Catholic Courses, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, and is writer in residence and associate professor of literature at Ave Maria University in Florida.