C.S. Lewis
Author, scholar and lay theologian
C.S. Lewis was a British writer, a scholar of English literature and a lay theologian in the Anglican tradition. He is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia and for his Christian writing.
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British Born 1898 in Belfast, United Kingdom Died 1963
About C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was born in Belfast and held academic posts in English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He wrote more than 30 books, including The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and the Space Trilogy. Lewis was baptized in the Church of Ireland, drifted from his faith as a teenager, and came back to Anglicanism aged 32. His radio talks about Christianity during the war won him wide acclaim, and Mere Christianity is among his works of Christian apologetics. He was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien and took part in the Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. In 1956 he married the American writer Joy Davidman. In 2013 he received a memorial in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.