I'm running behind on this, of course.
Walter Wangerin Jr. (1944-2021) was a Lutheran pastor and a professor of English at the University of Evansville, eventually ending up teaching at Valparaiso University. He was a prolific author of both fiction and nonfiction. Most of his works are religious, but perhaps his best-known work is a fantasy novel published in 1978 called The Book of the Dun Cow, which is the new fortnightly book.
Men have not yet come, and animals protect the world from the terrible Wyrm at the center of the earth. Chauntecleer is a rooster, and as such a lord of his domain. But to rule brings grave responsibilities, and there are terrible monsters, not least of which are the evil basilisks who seek to free the Wyrm who will destory the world....
