He and Warren were close friends, and would spend long hours drawing and writing together. Jack Lewis's childhood was "humdrum, prosaic happiness". His older brother was Warren, nicknamed Warnie. Also, of endless books."īorn Clive Staples Lewis, he announced when he was three years old that his name was Jack, and Jack he was to family and friends for the rest of his life. In his autobiography, Surprised by Joy, Lewis describes himself as "a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstair indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. His parents Albert and Flora were both keen readers. Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898, the younger of two sons. Lewis's own account of his early years reads like a list of books, along with a few people, that shaped his life. This article explores more of Lewis the man, the storyteller and the Christian. His most famous book is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first published of his Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963) was a prolific writer, poet, scholar of English literature and defender of Christianity.
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