C. S. Lewis (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples Jack Lewis was reared in a peculiarly bookish home, one in which the reality he found on the pages of the books within his parents’ extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that transpired outside their doors. As adolescents, Lewis and his older brother, Warren, were more at home in the world of ideas and books of the past than with the material, technological world of the twentieth century. When the tranquillity and sanctity of the Lewis home was shattered beyond repair by the death...
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