Lewis, C. S.
Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples Lewis, 1898–1963),British author, scholar, and popular theologian. Lewis and his older brother Warren, sons of a Belfast solicitor, enjoyed a protected middle‐class childhood whose happiness and security were destroyed by the death of their mother from cancer in 1908, followed by a grim succession of boarding schools. After World War I, Lewis returned to Oxford, where he achieved a triple First Class degree at University College. In 1925 he became a Fellow of Magdalen College. His scholarly reputation in medieval and Renaissance English literature was established when his book The Allegory of Love won the Hawthornden Prize in 1936. In 1954 he was offered a professorship at Cambridge University, where he taught until his retirement. Meanwhile, he was becoming increasingly well known as a popular theologian. A militant atheist in his teens, as he relates in his spiritual autobiography Surprised by Joy (1955), Lewis...
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