C. S. Lewis

The Oxford and Cambridge scholar who wrote the seven Chronicles.

C. S. Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian, best known for The Chronicles of Narnia. He taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford (1925-1954) and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954-1963), and died in 1963.

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

Lore & Background

He also wrote The Screwtape Letters and the Space Trilogy, and Christian apologetics such as Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain. A close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, he belonged with him to the Inklings, an informal Oxford literary group.