Lewis, C S ___ 1898-1963 ___ British ___ writer

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with the first names Clive and Staples, but he is always known as C S Lewis. His mother died when he was only ten. He studied at Cherbourg School, Malvern, and University College, Oxford. His studies were interrupted while he served in the army during the latter stages of the First World War (during which he was wounded in the Battle of Arras), but thereafter he returned to Oxford and gained several degrees. He stayed on at University College as a tutor, and, in 1925, was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1930, Lewis, his brother and Janie King Moore (the mother of a friend killed in the war) jointly purchased a house called The Kilns. In 1931, he became a committed Christian. By 1933, Lewis and a group of literary friends, dubbed the 'Inklings', were meeting regularly. Lewis's first major work, 'An Allegory of Love: Study in Medieval Tradition', was published in 1936 (later, it won a Gollancz Memorial Prize). 'The Screwtape Letters' followed, in 1942, published as installments in a magazine. This was one of many Christian works he would write. The first of the Narnia Chronicles, for which C S Lewis is probably most famous, was published in 1950, and the last in 1956. In 1954, Lewis was elected Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. In 1956, he married Joy Davidman in order to prevent her deportation. Although she was ill with cancer and expected to die quickly, she survived until 1960. Three years later, Lewis himself died, on the same day as President Kennedy and Aldous Huxley.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio
The Diary Review - For Mrs Moore

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1922-1927 ___ domestic literary self social nature

WEB TEXT LINKS
lots about and quotes
googlebooks
a few pages

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
Oxford University: Bodleian Library - possibly

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C S Lewis 1922-1927
 

October 2005, July 2008, April 2013
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