Michael Ward

Michael Ward is a British scholar and Anglican priest born in 1968. He is best known for his groundbreaking literary study *Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis* (2008), which argues that Lewis structured each Chronicle of Narnia around medieval planetary symbolism. Ward's work focuses on C.S. Lewis scholarship, Christian theology, and medieval cosmology. His discovery of Lewis's hidden design earned widespread acclaim, winning the annual book prize from the Mythopoeic Society. Ward serves as Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and has written extensively on Lewis, including *After Humanity* and *The Narnia Code*. His scholarship combines rigorous academic research with accessible writing for general readers.