Known to friends as Jack, Lewis grew up in a book-filled household as the younger son of a solicitor and a mother who died of cancer when he was nine. The loss, along with his father's emotional remoteness, drew him close to his older brother, Warren, and helped shape the themes of longing and loss that run through his writing. He was educated at boarding schools and later studied privately with William T. Kirkpatrick, a rigorous tutor who prepared him for Oxford.
During World War I he served in the British Army and was wounded in France in 1918. After the war he returned to Oxford, earned first-class honors, and in 1925 became a fellow of Magdalen College, where he taught English literature for nearly three decades. Lewis was an atheist for much of his youth and early academic career, but in 1929 he became a theist and in 1931 a Christian, influenced by conversations with J.R.R. Tolkien and Hugo Dyson.
The Allegory of Love (1936) established his reputation as a scholar of medieval and Renaissance literature. He also wrote science fiction and fantasy, including Out of the Silent Planet (1938), and during World War II his BBC radio broadcasts made him a popular Christian apologist. The Screwtape Letters appeared in 1942, and Mere Christianity, adapted from those talks, was published in 1952.
The seven Chronicles of Narnia novels, beginning with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950), became his most famous work. In 1954 he was appointed to a professorship at Cambridge, and in 1956 he married the American writer Joy Davidman; her death in 1960 led to A Grief Observed (1961). Lewis died in 1963.
Cs Lewis was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, N Ireland, United Kingdom. In Cardology (Destiny Cards), November 29, 1898 corresponds to the Four of Hearts, making the Four of Hearts his Birth Card.
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“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.” - Cs Lewis
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