AUTHOR | C. S. LEWIS
C. S. Lewis | Novelist, scholar, broadcaster
Bio:
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1925–54, and Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–63. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain. Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends. They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis' memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Lewis returned to the Anglican Communion at the age of 32, owing to the influence of
Born: 1898-11-29
Born in: Belfast, Ireland
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“ An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is...
“ In great literature, I become a thousand different m...
“ In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort ...
“ Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money...
“ And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all the...
“ In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell u...
“ His education had been neither scientific nor classi...
“ Every good book should be entertaining. A good book ...
“ Relying on God has to begin all over again every day...
“ Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Be...
“ In those days a boy on the classical side officially...
“ No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
“ I would rather be what God chose to make me than the...
“ No book is really worth reading at the age of ten wh...
“ …the greatest service we can do to education today i...
“ My argument against God was that the universe seemed...