77 Facts About CS Lewis

Clive Staples CS Lewis was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian.

CS Lewis held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University and Cambridge University .

CS Lewis is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

CS Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32, owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, and he became an "ordinary layman of the Church of England".

CS Lewis wrote more than 30 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies.

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In 1956, CS Lewis married American writer Joy Davidman; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45.

CS Lewis died on 22 November 1963 from kidney failure, one week before his 65th birthday.

In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, CS Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Clive Staples CS Lewis was born in Belfast in Ulster, Ireland, on 29 November 1898.

CS Lewis's father was Albert James Lewis, a solicitor whose father Richard Lewis had come to Ireland from Wales during the mid-19th century.

CS Lewis was baptized on 29 January 1899 by his maternal grandfather in St Mark's Church, Dundela.

CS Lewis was schooled by private tutors until age nine, when his mother died in 1908 from cancer.

CS Lewis then attended Campbell College in the east of Belfast about a mile from his home, but left after a few months due to respiratory problems.

CS Lewis was then sent back to England to the health-resort town of Malvern, Worcestershire, where he attended the preparatory school Cherbourg House, which Lewis referred to as "Chartres" in his autobiography.

In September 1913, CS Lewis enrolled at Malvern College, where he remained until the following June.

CS Lewis grew to love nature; its beauty reminded him of the stories of the North, and the stories of the North reminded him of the beauties of nature.

In 1916, CS Lewis was awarded a scholarship at University College, Oxford.

CS Lewis experienced a certain cultural shock on first arriving in England: "No Englishman will be able to understand my first impressions of England, " CS Lewis wrote in Surprised by Joy.

From boyhood, CS Lewis had immersed himself in Norse and Greek mythology, and later in Irish mythology and literature.

CS Lewis expressed an interest in the Irish language, though there is not much evidence that he laboured to learn it.

CS Lewis developed a particular fondness for W B Yeats, in part because of Yeats's use of Ireland's Celtic heritage in poetry.

CS Lewis writes plays and poems of rare spirit and beauty about our old Irish mythology.

CS Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism towards the English.

CS Lewis entered Oxford in the 1917 summer term, studying at University College, and shortly after, he joined the Officers' Training Corps at the university as his "most promising route into the army".

On his 19th birthday, CS Lewis arrived at the front line in the Somme Valley in France, where he experienced trench warfare for the first time.

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On 15 April 1918, as 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry assaulted the village of Riez du Vinage in the midst of the German spring offensive, CS Lewis was wounded and two of his colleagues were killed by a British shell falling short of its target.

CS Lewis was demobilized in December 1918 and soon restarted his studies.

CS Lewis lived with and cared for Moore until she was hospitalized in the late 1940s.

CS Lewis routinely introduced her as his mother, referred to her as such in letters, and developed a deeply affectionate friendship with her.

CS Lewis's own mother had died when he was a child, while his father was distant, demanding, and eccentric.

When—or whether—CS Lewis commenced an affair with Mrs Moore remains unclear.

In 1930, CS Lewis moved into The Kilns with his brother Warnie, Mrs Moore, and her daughter Maureen.

CS Lewis visited her every day in this home until her death.

CS Lewis was raised in a religious family that attended the Church of Ireland.

CS Lewis became an atheist at age 15, though he later described his young self as being paradoxically "very angry with God for not existing" and "equally angry with him for creating a world".

CS Lewis vigorously resisted conversion, noting that he was brought into Christianity like a prodigal, "kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance to escape".

CS Lewis records making a specific commitment to Christian belief while on his way to the zoo with his brother.

CS Lewis was a committed Anglican who upheld a largely orthodox Anglican theology, though in his apologetic writings, he made an effort to avoid espousing any one denomination.

Regardless, CS Lewis considered himself an entirely orthodox Anglican to the end of his life, reflecting that he initially attended church only to receive communion and had been repelled by the hymns and the poor quality of the sermons.

CS Lewis later came to consider himself honoured by worshipping with men of faith who came in shabby clothes and work boots and who sang all the verses to all the hymns.

CS Lewis was only 40 when the war began, and he tried to re-enter military service, offering to instruct cadets; however, his offer was not accepted.

CS Lewis rejected the recruiting office's suggestion of writing columns for the Ministry of Information in the press, as he did not want to "write lies" to deceive the enemy.

From 1941 to 1943, CS Lewis spoke on religious programmes broadcast by the BBC from London while the city was under periodic air raids.

CS Lewis was named on the last list of honours by George VI in December 1951 as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire but declined so as to avoid association with any political issues.

In 1954, CS Lewis accepted the newly founded chair in Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he finished his career.

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CS Lewis maintained a strong attachment to the city of Oxford, keeping a home there and returning on weekends until his death in 1963.

CS Lewis's was my daughter and my mother, my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign; and always, holding all these in solution, my trusty comrade, friend, shipmate, fellow-soldier.

In later life, CS Lewis corresponded with Joy Davidman Gresham, an American writer of Jewish background, a former Communist, and a convert from atheism to Christianity.

CS Lewis's was separated from her alcoholic and abusive husband, novelist William L Gresham, and came to England with her two sons, David and Douglas.

CS Lewis continued to raise Gresham's two sons after her death.

In early June 1961, CS Lewis began experiencing nephritis, which resulted in blood poisoning.

CS Lewis's illness caused him to miss the autumn term at Cambridge, though his health gradually began improving in 1962 and he returned that April.

CS Lewis's health continued to improve and, according to his friend George Sayer, Lewis was fully himself by early 1963.

CS Lewis began his academic career as an undergraduate student at Oxford University, where he won a triple first, the highest honours in three areas of study.

CS Lewis was then elected a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he worked for nearly thirty years, from 1925 to 1954.

CS Lewis was commissioned to write the volume English Literature in the Sixteenth Century for the Oxford History of English Literature.

CS Lewis's last academic work, The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature, is a summary of the medieval world view, a reference to the "discarded image" of the cosmos.

Space Trilogy dealt with what CS Lewis saw as the dehumanizing trends in contemporary science fiction.

CS Lewis stayed in Durham, where he says he was overwhelmed by the magnificence of the cathedral.

CS Lewis wrote The Four Loves, which rhetorically explains four categories of love: friendship, eros, affection, and charity.

CS Lewis is regarded by many as one of the most influential Christian apologists of his time, in addition to his career as an English professor and an author of fiction.

CS Lewis has been called "The Apostle to the Skeptics" due to his approach to religious belief as a sceptic, and his following conversion.

CS Lewis was very interested in presenting an argument from reason against metaphysical naturalism and for the existence of God.

CS Lewis wrote an autobiography titled Surprised by Joy, which places special emphasis on his own conversion.

CS Lewis wrote many essays and public speeches on Christian belief, many of which were collected in God in the Dock and The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses.

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CS Lewis argued that Jesus made several implicit claims to divinity, which would logically exclude that claim:.

CS Lewis used a similar argument in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, when the old Professor advises his young guests that their sister's claims of a magical world must logically be taken as either lies, madness, or truth.

One of the main theses in CS Lewis's apologia is that there is a common morality known throughout humanity, which he calls "natural law".

CS Lewis goes on to claim that there must be someone or something behind such a universal set of principles.

CS Lewis had fairly progressive views on the topic of "animal morality", in particular the suffering of animals, as is evidenced by several of his essays: most notably, On Vivisection and "On the Pains of Animals".

In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, CS Lewis joined some of Britain's greatest writers recognized at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey.

CS Lewis has been the subject of several biographies, a few of which were written by close friends, such as Roger Lancelyn Green and George Sayer.

Many books have been inspired by CS Lewis, including A Severe Mercy by his correspondent and friend Sheldon Vanauken.

CS Lewis's work, accusing CS Lewis of featuring religious propaganda, misogyny, racism, and emotional sadism in his books.

Kathryn Lindskoog, an independent CS Lewis scholar, argued that Hooper's scholarship is not reliable and that he has made false statements and attributed forged works to CS Lewis.

CS Lewis Societies exist around the world, including one which was founded in Oxford in 1982.

CS Lewis is one of two characters in Mark St Germain's 2009 play Freud's Last Session, which imagines a meeting between Lewis, aged 40, and Sigmund Freud, aged 83, at Freud's house in Hampstead, London, in 1939, as the Second World War is about to break out.