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Clive Staples Lewis (better known as C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963) was an author, historian, scholar, and theologian. Lewis is best known for his Chronicles of Narnia series.
Life[]
Childhood[]
Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. His parents were Albert Lewis, a solicitor, and Florence Lewis, the daughter of a Church of Ireland priest. Lewis had an older brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, who was known as Warnie. The family had a dog named Jacksie, and after losing the dog to being hit by a car, the young Lewis firmly announced that he wanted to go by Jacksie. This got shortened into Jacks, which became Jack, a nickname that his friends and family called him.
Growing up, he was schooled by private tutors, and then was sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, the same year that his mother died from cancer, which was 1908. His brother had already enrolled in the same school three years previously, in 1905. Soon after, the Wynyard School was closed due to the lack of pupils, with the headmaster being sent to an insane asylum a short time later. There has been speculation that the atmosphere of the school was greatly traumatizing to young Lewis.
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Adulthood[]
Besides being a writer, C.S. Lewis was also a literary scholar and a Anglican lay theologian, and held positions at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Lewis was a good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, the writer of The Lord of the Rings series, because they both were part of a writer's group called The Inklings, or The Society of Inklings, which was a writer's group that more than one famous British writer of the time was part of.
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Along with the scholarly work that he did, Lewis famously wrote popular novels, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy among them. Most of them featured implicit Christian themes such as sin and redemption.
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Written Works[]
- The Chronicles of Narnia series
- The Magician's Nephew
- The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
- The Horse and His Boy
- Prince Caspian
- The Voyage of The Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Last Battle
- Mere Christianity
- The Screwtape Letters
- The Great Divorce
- The Four Loves
- A Grief Observed
- The Abolition of Man
- The Problem of Pain
- Till We Have Faces
- The Space Trilogy
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