C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was born in 1898 in Belfast, lost his mother at the age of nine and was sent to boarding school in England. Wounded in France in 1918, he became a medievalist at Oxford and then a professor at Cambridge, and wrote a study of medieval allegory of love, which was awarded a prize in 1937. An atheist until after the age of thirty, he returned to Christianity at thirty-two and during the war gave religious talks on public radio, followed by more than a million listeners. Married late in life to an American woman, he died in 1963.

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• NovelThe Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis · 1950Literature