Jeffry C. Davis (Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago) is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center at Wheaton College (Illinois). He has written several articles on the first-century educator and theorist Quintilian, his most recent entitled "´Connected´ Writing Instruction: Adapting Quintilian´s Pedagogy to the College Classroom," in The Journal of Teaching Writing (January 2002). He is presently working on two books: Quintilian´s Composing Narrative and A Rhetoric for Christian Liberal Arts.

Leland Ryken (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is Professor of English at Wheaton College (Illinois), where he has taught since 1968. His fields of specialty include Milton, Shakespeare, British literature, the Bible as literature, religious approaches to literature, and English Puritanism. He has published two dozen books on such subjects as literature in Christian perspective, Milton, the Bible as literature, work and leisure, and the Puritans.

Thomas L. Martin (Ph.D., Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Florida Atlantic University, where he teaches the history of criticism, Renaissance literature, and literature of the fantastic. He is editor ofReading the Classics with C. S. Lewis and author of the forthcoming book entitled Poiesis and Possible Worlds.