Louis Markos is a Professor of English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. He teaches courses on British Romantic and Victorian Poetry and Prose, the Classics, C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and Film. Jeff Fallow has been illustrating For Beginners books since 1999. Jeff has worked as illustrator for Glasgow Museums and graphic designer for the National Health Service. He is Scottish and lives in the Kingdom of Fife