C.S. Lewis

Clive Staple Lewis is his real name. He made books like The Cronicals of Narnia, the Screwtape Letters, and Mere Christianity. C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898. Through out his whole C.S. Lewis had a nickname. Jack. He gave himself this nickname at the age of four. He only ahd one brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis. C.S, Lewis' mother died of cancer in 1908 when he was only 9 years old. In 1908 he became a barding student at Campbell College in Belfast, just one mile from his home but whithdrew one year later. In 1913 he enrolled in Malvern College where he remained for one year. It was there that C.S. Lewis became an athiest abandoning the Christian faith of his childhood. From Malvern, he went to private tootering under William T. Kirkpatric, "The Great Knock", had also been his father's tooter. Lewis went on to recieve a scholar ship at Oxford. Later he enrolled into the british army in 1916. On May 20, 1925, Lewis was Fellow tutor in English Ltituter at Oxford University, where he served for 20 years. In the army, Lewis  became freinds with his roommate, Paddy Moore. Moore was killed in battle in 1998.

     While in Oxford, Lewis wnet from being an antheist to being one of the most influential christian writers of the 20th centery; 1931 marks the year of Lewis' conversion to christianity. He also became a member of the church of england. He wrote books such as The Chronicals of Narnia