Clive Staples LewisLife, destiny, creations.

Author:Polina Luur1

Clive Staples Lewis

• C.S.Lewis was born in 1898 and died in 1963.

• He is English and Irish writer, novelist, essayist,scientist and theologian.

• Clive Lewis is famous for his medieval and Christian literature.

• He is a creator of series of books “Chronicles of Narnia”,which was also filmed.

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Family and childhood• C.S.Lewis was born in Belfast, North

Ireland, on 29th November, 1898. He was the son of Albert J. Lewis, a lawyer, and Flora August Hamilton Lewis, a mathematician whose father was a minister. His brother was Warren Lewis (1895-1973), known as Warnie,a lifelong friend.

• Aged 4, he announced his wish to be known as "Jack" Lewis, and his family and friends referred to him that way for the rest of his life.

• In 1905 their family moves to their new house “Little Lea”,on the outskirts of Belfast,where he is living most of his childhood.

Family and childhood

The Lewis Family at Little Lea

Little Lea,Belfast.

Family and childhood

Jack and Warnie

Education

• After school graduation in 1917 he goes to the Oxford University, but soon he leaves it and goes to the front.

• After being wounded in World War I in 1918, C.S.Lewis demobilized and returned to the University, where he finished studying and nearly 30 years he taught at the College of St. Mary Magdalene English literature.

Career and achievements• Together with his friends and

colleagues, and J. R.R.Tolkien and Ch.Williams, Lewis founded a circle of university leaders, calling themselves the "Inklings."

• In 1954, Lewis moved to Cambridge, where he was in possession of the department and was appointed professor.

• In 1955 he became a member of the British Academy of Sciences.

• The first literary publication – a collection of poetry “Spirits in Bondage ”

Career and achievementsBibliography:

• Fantasy

Series “Chronicles of Narnia” 1.The Lion, the Witch and the

Wardrobe (1950) 2.Prince Caspian: The return to Narnia

(1951) 3.The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

(1952) 4.The Silver Chair (1953)5.The Horse and His Boy (1954) 6.The Magician’s Nephew (1955)7. The Last Battle (1956)

A mural depicting Lewis and characters from the Narnia series

Bibliography:• Science fictionThe cycle of "Space Trilogy" 1. Out of the Silent Planet, (1938)2. Perelandra, (1943) 3. That Hideous Strength, (1946)

• Religious works 1. “The Problem of Pain” (1940)2. “The Screwtape Letters” (1942)3. “Great Divorce” (1945)4. “Miracles: A Preliminary Study” (1947)5. “Screwtape Proposes a Toast” (1961)6. “Mere Christianity” (1952) based on radio 7. “Till We Have Faces” (1956)8. “Reflections on the Psalms” (1958)9. “The Four Loves” (1960)10. “A Grief Observed” (1961)

Bibliography:Work in the field of literary

history1.“A Preface to Paradise Lost” (1942) 2. “English Literature in the Sixteenth

Century” (1955) 

Work in the field of philology1.“The Allegory of Love: A Study in

Medieval Tradition” (1936)

Collections of poems, published

under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton

1.“Spirits in Bondage” (1919)2.“Dymer”(1926) 

  

Death

• Clive Staples Lewis died on 2th November 1963. 

• He is buried in the churchyard of Holy Trinity Church, Headington, Oxford.

• C.S.Lewis will always remembered as a talanted Christian and children writer.I think,that many generations of children will member and love him and his books very much.