“What book is it?”
“I can’t remember the name,” Brown responded. “It’s by a guy who was friends with C.S. Lewis.”
“J.R.R. Tolkien?”
“No. They were friends, too, but there was a third guy.”
The writer in question is likely Charles Williams, one of a small group of men (including Tolkien and Lewis) at Oxford University in England in the 1930s called The Inklings who bonded and met over similar literary interests.
It was a little unexpected to hear the conversation take place at Mississippi State’s football facility, but that’s what you get with junior linebacker Richie Brown walking around the place.