C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis, 1898-1963) was a British writer and scholar, born in Belfast. He taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925, and from 1954 held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. He is best known for the seven Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956), opened by “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, and for works of Christian apologetics such as “The Screwtape Letters” (1942) and “Mere Christianity” (1952). He also wrote the Space Trilogy, the novel “Till We Have Faces” (1956) and literary criticism, including “The Allegory of Love”. He died in Oxford in 1963.
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C. S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis, 1898-1963) was a British writer and scholar, born in Belfast. He taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1925, and from 1954 held the chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. He is best known for the seven Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956), opened by “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, and for works of Christian apologetics such as “The Screwtape Letters” (1942) and “Mere Christianity” (1952). He also wrote the Space Trilogy, the novel “Till We Have Faces” (1956) and literary criticism, including “The Allegory of Love”. He died in Oxford in 1963.
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