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Clive Staples Lewis commonly known as C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898. In 1908 his mother died of cancer and he is sent to Wynyard school in England. In 1910 he went to Campbell College but had respiratory problems and only went for a term. After winning a scholarship in 1916 to Oxford University he enlisted in the British army in World War I and was commissioned as an officer. Injured in April 1918 in battle he was eventually discharged in December 1918. In 1920 he retired from the military. From 1924-1925 he served as a philosophy tutor. His first literature, "Dymer", a book length narrative poem was published in 1926. His dad died in 1924, the year he also became an antheist. In 1931 he became a Christian after talking to J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. In 1935 he wrote the volume on 16th Century English Literature for the Oxford History of English Literature series which eventually was published in 1954. In 1938 "Out of the Silent Planet" was published starting the Space trilogy. Published the Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe in 1950, Rest of Chronicles continues being written after that. Married Joy Davidman Gresham on April 23, 1956. He died in 1963 of multiple sicknesses a week before his 65th birthday.


 * __List of books he wrote:__**
 * 1) Mere Christianity
 * 2) The Chronicles of Narnia
 * 3) The Problem of Pain
 * 4) A Grief Observed
 * 5) Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
 * 6) The Weight of Glory
 * 7) C.S. Lewis' Letter to Children
 * 8) The Abolition of Man
 * 9) The Great Divorce
 * 10) The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
 * 11) Present Concerns
 * 12) The Screwtape Letters
 * 13) The Four Loves
 * 14) Space Trilogy
 * 15) Miracles
 * 16) God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
 * 17) Letters to an American Lady
 * 18) Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
 * 19) On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
 * 20) Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
 * 21) Studies in Words
 * 22) Reflections on the Psalms
 * 23) The Discarded Image
 * 24) A Preface to Paradise Lost
 * 25) Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis

Nick Nelson