He married Joy Gresham, first in a civil ceremony of convenience and later in a Christian ceremony. Tolkien, Lewis came to believe in God at age 31 and in Jesus Christ two years later. In part as a result of his friendship with J. They were close, and even lived under the same roof for years, though the details of their relationship are unclear. While convalescing, he became very close to Jane Moore, the mother of a fellow soldier. He enlisted, was commissioned, and was then wounded in action. He enrolled in Oxford, but his studies were interrupted by World War I. As a teenager, he abandoned the Christianity of his home and became interested in mythology and the occult. His grandfather, Thomas Hamilton, was an Anglican vicar. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1898, into a Church of Ireland (Anglican) family of Welsh-Irish origin. A number of stage and screen adaptations of Lewis' works have also been produced, the most notable of which is the 2005 Disney film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which grossed US$745,000,000 worldwide.Ĭ. Lewis' works have been translated into over 30 languages and continue to sell over a million copies a year the books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia have sold over 100 million copies. Late in life he married the American writer Joy Gresham (née Davidman), who died of bone cancer four years later at the age of 45. His conversion would have a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. Due in part to Tolkien's influence, Lewis converted to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England". Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, and both were leading figures in the Oxford literary group The Inklings along with Charles Williams. He has a fictionalised counterpart in the C.S. As well as being considered one of the greatest Christian thinkers of his time, Lewis wrote over 30 books, which were in turn translated into over 30 different languages. Lewis was born in Belfast, in pre-partition Ireland. As well as writing the Space Trilogy, he is known for his The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and nonfiction works such as Mere Christianity. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. Lewis or Jack by his friends and family, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis Ĭlive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. "If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world" - C.
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