C.S. Lewis was a British author, academic and theologian best known for The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series and Christian apologetic works. He was born in 1898 in Belfast, Ireland and attended both boarding school and Oxford University in England. Lewis converted to Christianity as a adult under the influence of his friend and fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien. He wrote numerous works examining Christianity and was popular for his radio broadcasts on faith. Lewis married late in life and had no children, dying in 1963 on the same day as President Kennedy's assassination. The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring children transported to a magical land, became his most famous work with over 120 million copies sold.
2. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis .British novelist, academic, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy.
3. His father was Albert James Lewis (1863–1929), a solicitor At the age of four, shortly after his dog Jacksie died when run over by a car, Lewis announced that his name was now Jacksie. 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
4. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence.
5. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at about the age of 30, Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England".His conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim
6. In 1956, he married the American writer Joy Gresham, 17 years his junior, who died four years later of cancer at the age of 45. Lewis himself died three years later following a heart attack, one week before what would have been his 65th birthday. Media coverage of his death was minimal, as he died on 22 November 1963 – the same day that US President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the same day Aldous Huxley died.
7. Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies over the years. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, in TV, in radio, and in cinema. The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 120 million copies
8. The Chronicles of Narnia present the adventures of children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the fictional realm of Narnia, a place where animals talk, magic is common, and good battles evil. Each of the books (with the exception of The Horse and His Boy) features as its protagonists children from our world who are magically transported to Narnia, where they are called upon to help the Lion Aslan handle a crisis in the world of Narnia.
9. The seven books : The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader The Silver Chair The Horse and His Boy The Magician's Nephew The Last Battle
