Biography

The beloved author of The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis, was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. He was raised in a home with a plethora of books, go figure, and read all the time. Then in 1908 a tragedy struck, his mother died. This completely broke Lewis' heart. However, in 1913, he enrolled at Malvern College and at the age of 15 abandoned Christianity and became an atheist. Little did he know that this was just the beginning of God's transformation in his life. In 1916 he attended Oxford University under a scholarship but just a year later halted his studies to join the British Army for World War I. Wounded in April 1918, he recovered and was discharged in 1919 and resumed his studies. At the same time he looked after his roommate during the war, Paddy Moore's, family as Moore had asked Lewis to do. 1931 was a monumental year for Lewis, as this was the year that he converted back to Christianity, and has been a very inspiring Christian writer. The funny thing is that Lewis was such an avid atheist and the more he tried to share and prove atheism to people, the more God drew him closer to Him. Like Lewis said, "A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading." Then in 1936, C.S. Lewis published his first successful writing, The Allegory of Love, which helped people understand the importance of allegory in medieval literature. However, everyone knows about his series The Chronicles of Narnia, which was published from 1950-1956, and started with the most popular book and now a movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In 1956, Lewis got married to Joy Gresham, but she passed away only four years later due to bone cancer. Still, Lewis kept on watching after her two sons, Douglas and David, but died shortly after Joy on November 22, 1963. His work has been even more influential after his death and he will always be remembered as a brilliant writer and a wonderful example of how God works in people's lives.

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