C. S. Lewis
Author of The Chronicles of Narnia and Christian apologist
Clive Staples Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 in Belfast, Ireland, to Albert J. Lewis and Florence Augusta Hamilton Lewis.[1]
Quick Facts
- Pen name
- Clive Hamilton, N. W. Clerk
- Birth name
- Clive Staples Lewis
- Born
- 29 November 1898
- Birthplace
- Belfast, Ireland
- Died
- 22 November 1963
- Place of death
- Oxford, England
- Resting place
- Holy Trinity Church, Headington Quarry
- Occupation
- Novelist
- scholar
- broadcaster
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
On 15 April 1918 he was wounded on Mount Berenchon during the Battle of Arras.[1] Lewis returned to Christianity in 1931 after a long discussion with Tolkien and Hugo Dyson, becoming a member of the Church of England.[2] During the Second World War he served in the local Home Guard and gave BBC radio talks that were later published as Mere Christianity.[3][1] He abandoned Christianity during adolescence and became an atheist, later describing himself as "very angry with God for not existing"[4][5]
What the cited sources add
The C.S. Lewis Foundation timeline records that Lewis first read George MacDonald's Phantastes in February 1916, which powerfully "baptized his imagination"[1] Lewis's first publication other than school magazines was "Death in Battle," which appeared in the February 1919 issue of Reveille.[1] Lewis received the Gollancz Memorial Prize for Literature in 1937 for The Allegory of Love.[1]
References
- "The Life of C.S. Lewis Timeline", C.S. Lewis Foundation. facts only, no text reused. cslewis.org
- Wikipedia, "C. S. Lewis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Carpenter 2006 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "C. S. Lewis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bingham, "C. S. Lewis: The Story Teller", CF4Kids, 2004, p. 105; Bingham, "C. S. Lewis: The Story Teller", Christian Focus, 2004, p. 109-111 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "C. S. Lewis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lewis 1966b, p. 10 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "C. S. Lewis" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lewis 1966b, p. 10; The Critic, Volume 32, Thomas More Association, 1973. Original from the University of Michigan.; Lewis 1966b, p. 10 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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