C.S. Lewis

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C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Also known as: Clive Staples Lewis

Written by Peter Schakel

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Last Updated: Nov 25, 2024 • Article History

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In full:: Clive Staples Lewis

Born:: November 29, 1898, Belfast, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland]

Died:: November 22, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (aged 64)

Notable Works:: letter; literary criticism; “Out of the Silent Planet”; “Perelandra”; “That Hideous Strength”; “The Abolition of Man”; “The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition”; “The Chronicles of Narnia”; “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”; “The Screwtape Letters”; “Till We Have Faces”

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C.S. Lewis (born November 29, 1898, Belfast, Ireland [now in Northern Ireland]—died November 22, 1963, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an Irish-born scholar, novelist, and author of about 40 books, many of them on Christian apologetics, including The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity. His works of greatest lasting fame may be The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven children’s books that have become classics of fantasy literature. Reading and education were valued highly in the Lewis household. Lewis’s father, Albert Lewis, was a solicitor, and his mother, Florence Hamilton Lewis, graduated from the Royal University of Ireland (now Queen’s University ...(100 of 1359 words)

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