Jan 4, 2010

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | About the Author

Clive Staples Lewis was born November 29, 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. He attended English public schools (the same as private schools in America). Although he won a scholarship to Oxford University in 1916, he did not pass his elementary mathematics examination. During World War I he served in the British army as an infantry lieutenant and was wounded in battle. Following the war he was accepted at Oxford.

While a student, he published his first work, Spirits in Bondage (1919), a book of poetry. Originally an atheist, Lewis underwent a slow but profound spiritual change...