CS Lewis

CS Lewis

• Birth:  November 29, 1898 
• Death:    November 22, 1963
• Nationality:   Irish
• Education:   University College, Oxford
• Books Written
• • The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936)
  • Rehabilitations and other essays (1939; two essays not included in Essay Collection [2000])
  • The Personal Heresy: A Controversy (with E. M. W. Tillyard, 1939)
  • The Problem of Pain (1940)
  • The Case for Christianity (1942)
  • A Preface to Paradise Lost (1942)
  • Broadcast Talks (1942)
  • The Abolition of Man (1943)
  • Christian Behaviour (1943)
  • Beyond Personality (1944)
  • The Inner Ring (1944)^[1]
  • Miracles: A Preliminary Study (1947, revised 1960)
  • Arthurian Torso (1948; on Charles Williams's poetry)
  • Transposition, and other Addresses (1949)
  • Mere Christianity: A Revised and Amplified Edition, with a New Introduction, of the Three Books, Broadcast Talks, Christian Behaviour, and Beyond Personality (1952; based on radio talks of 1941–1944)
  • English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama. Oxford history of English literature; Clark lectures. 3 (paperback ed.). Oxford University Press. 1975 [1944]. ISBN 0-19-881298-1..
  • Major British Writers, Vol I (1954; contribution on Edmund Spenser)
  • Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (1955; autobiography)
  • Reflections on the Psalms (1958)
  • The Four Loves (1960)
  • Studies in Words (1960)
  • The World's Last Night and Other Essays (1960)
  • An Experiment in Criticism (1961)
  • A Grief Observed (1961; first published under the pseudonym «N. W. Clerk»)
  • They Asked for a Paper: Papers and Addresses (1962; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
  • Selections from Layamon's Brut (ed. G L Brook, 1963 Oxford University Press; introduction)
  • Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
  • Beyond The Bright Blur (1963) — a limited-run 30-page excerpt taken from Letters to Malcolm and "published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author" according to the opening page.
  • The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1964)
  • Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
  • On Stories: and other essays on literature (ed. Walter Hooper, 1966)
  • Spenser's Images of Life (ed. Alastair Fowler, 1967)
  • Letters to an American Lady (1967)
  • Christian Reflections (1967; essays and papers; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
  • Selected Literary Essays (1969; not included in Essay Collection [2000])
  • God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
  • Undeceptions (1971; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
  • The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (1980)
  • Of Other Worlds (1982; essays; one essay not included in Essay Collection [2000])
  • The Business Of Heaven: Daily Readings From C. S. Lewis (Walter Hooper, ed.; 1984)
  • Present Concerns (1986; essays; all essays found in Essay Collection [2000])
  • All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis 1922–27 (1993)
  • Compelling Reason: Essays on Ethics and Theology (1998)
  • The Latin Letters of C.S. Lewis (1999)
  • Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories (2000)
  • Essay Collection: Faith, Christianity and the Church (2000)
  • Collected Letters, Vol. I: Family Letters 1905–1931 (2000)
  • From Narnia to a Space Odyssey : The War of Ideas Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis (2003)
  • Collected Letters, Vol. II: Books, Broadcasts and War 1931–1949 (2004)
  • Collected Letters, Vol. III: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950–1963 (2007)
  • Language and Human Nature with J.R.R. Tolkien (draft discovered in 2009)^[2]
  • Image and Imagination Essays and Reviews (2013)
  •  The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
  • Space Trilogy 
  • Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
• Perelandra (aka Voyage to Venus) (1943)
• That Hideous Strength (1945)

• The Screwtape Letters (1942)
• The Great Divorce (1945)
• The Chronicles of Narnia

1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
2. Prince Caspian (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)

• Till We Have Faces (1956)
• "The Shoddy Lands" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1956)
• "Ministering Angels" (short story, Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1958)
• "Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (1961) (an addition to The Screwtape Letters)
• The Dark Tower (1977)
• Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (ed. Walter Hooper, 1985)

• Biography

a British writer and lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

Lewis and fellow novelist J. R. R. Tolkien were close friends. They both served on the English faculty at Oxford University, and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptised in the Church of Ireland, but fell away from his faith during adolescence. Lewis returned to Anglicanism at the age of 32, owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, and he became an "ordinary layman of the Church of England". Lewis's faith profoundly affected his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim.

Lewis wrote more than 30 books[3] which have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies. The books that make up The Chronicles of Narnia have sold the most and have been popularised on stage, TV, radio, and cinema. His philosophical writings are widely cited by Christian apologists from many denominations.

In 1956, Lewis married American writer Joy Davidman; she died of cancer four years later at the age of 45. Lewis died on 22 November 1963 from renal failure, one week before his 65th birthday. In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis was honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.    From Wikipedia