A PowerPoint lecture by photographer and English professor, Dr. Larry E. Fink of Hardin-Simmons University, acquaints the audience with the fascinating life story of the Victorian Scotsman often called the father of the modern fantasy novel: George MacDonald. MacDonald's major themes will be introduced and how they profoundly influenced G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and others. Pictures of the major MacDonald related sites, from his birthplace in Scotland to his gravesite in Italy. Based on Dr. Fink's book, George MacDonald: Images of his World (with Rolland Hein of Wheaton College).

Larry E. Fink is Professor of English at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, where he has taught since 1988. His MA thesis (Hardin-Simmons University) was on C. S. Lewis, his PhD dissertation (Texas A&M University) on Milton.

He regularly teaches classes on Milton, the English novel, C. S. Lewis, and the modern fantasy novel. Dr. Fink and Rolland Hein published the pictorial biography, George MacDonald: Images of His World in 2004. More recently, he supplied most of the photos for The Armstrong Browning Library, an illustrated guide to Baylor University's unique and beautiful research facility for the study of Robert & Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Larry is an active member of the Conference on Christianity & Literature, the C. S. Lewis & Inklings Society, and the George MacDonald Society. He regularly reads papers at meetings of these groups.

Larry and his wife Cathy married in 1973 and have three grown children: Rachel, Stephen, and Mary.