C.S. Lewis was an author, essayist, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his children’s classic series – The Chronicles of Narnia.
Throughout his life, he retained strong roots in Ireland. He sought out the company of the Irish and took an active interest in Celtic literature and myths.
C.S Lewis Early Life
Clive Staples Lewis was born on 29 November 1898 and died on 22 November 1963. His parents Albert, and Florence Augusta Hamilton, possessed first-rate minds, and they were members of the Church of Ireland. The father was a solicitor and the mother graduated from the Royal University of Ireland. Both of them were avid readers. He had one sibling named Warren Lewis.
C.S Lewis Education
At age 3, Lewis started reading when he was home. He then furthered to English boarding schools. He attended Wynyard School in Watford, outside London. Lewis read another course at Campbell College in Belfast, Cherbourg House in Malvern.
Intelligent as Lewis, he had a scholarship of a classic in Oxford University.
C.S Lewis Career
At age Five, Lewis started writing stories about a fantasy land populated by “dressed animals,” influenced by the stories of Beatrix Potter, which were being published as Lewis grew up.
Lewis was then a fellow tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford in1925. From 1954 to 1963, he was a professor of medieval and Renaissance English at the University Of Cambridge.
Lewis grew up with the dream of becoming a notable poet but after his first publications in 1919. He was a prolific writer and formed a close friendship with other Oxford fellows such as J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield. They formed an informal group known as the ‘Inklings’. They usually meet at pubs in Oxford such as ‘The Eagle and Child’ where they would read parts of their novels. He encouraged Tolkien as he wrote his epic ‘The Lord of the Rings.’
C.S Lewis Wife
Joy Gresham is the wife of C.S Lewis. She was a Jewish convert to Christianity who divorced her alcoholic husband William Gresham
C.S Lewis Children
Lewis had two-step sons including Douglas Gresham.
C.S Lewis Death
C.S.Lewis died in 1963 from renal failure. His death occurred on the same date as the assassination of J.F. Kennedy.
C.S Lewis Net Worth
C.S Lewis has a net worth of $10 million
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