His father then sent him to England to live and study at Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire. Lewis was schooled by private tutors until age nine, when his mother died in 1908 from cancer.
Upstair indoor silences, attics explored in solitude,ĭistant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes,Īnd the noise of wind under the tiles. I am the product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, The New House is almost a major character in my story. His father's house was filled with books he later wrote that finding something to read was as easy as walking into a field and "finding a new blade of grass". Along with his brother Warnie, he created the world of Boxen, a fantasy land inhabited and run by animals. Īs a boy, Lewis was fascinated with anthropomorphic animals he fell in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and often wrote and illustrated his own animal tales. When he was seven, his family moved into "Little Lea", the family home of his childhood, in the Strandtown area of East Belfast.
At first, he would answer to no other name, but later accepted Jack, the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life. When his dog Jacksie was killed by a car, the four-year old Lewis adopted the name Jacksie. He was baptized on 29 January 1899 by his maternal grandfather in St Mark's Church, Dundela. Lewis had an elder brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis (known as "Warnie"). Lewis's mother was Florence Augusta Lewis née Hamilton (1862–1908), known as Flora, the daughter of Thomas Hamilton, a Church of Ireland priest, and the great-granddaughter of both Bishop Hugh Hamilton and John Staples. His father was Albert James Lewis (1863–1929), a solicitor whose father Richard Lewis had come to Ireland from Wales during the mid-19th century. In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.īiography Childhood Little Lea, home of the Lewis family from 1905 to 1930Ĭlive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast in Ulster, Ireland (before partition), on 29 November 1898. Lewis died on 22 November 1963 from kidney failure, one week before his 65th birthday. In 1956, Lewis married American writer Joy Davidman she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45. His philosophical writings are widely cited by Christian scholars from many denominations. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularized on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. Lewis wrote more than 30 books which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. Lewis's faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. 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". According to Lewis's 1955 memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptized in the Church of Ireland but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Both men served on the English faculty at Oxford University and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also 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. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University ( Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University ( Magdalene College, 1954–1963). It does not store any personal data.Clive Staples Lewis, FBA (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.
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