C.S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was a writer and Anglican lay theologian, born on 29 November 1898 in Belfast, Ireland. He was elected a Fellow and taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford University, from 1925 to 1954. He was also awarded the chair in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, a role he served from 1954 to 1963. He wrote over 30 books during his lifetime. He has sold millions of copies worldwide and his work has been translated into over 30 languages. His celebrated fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, has been adapted multiple times for the stage, TV, radio and cinema. On 22 November 1963, one week before his sixty-fifth birthday, Lewis passed away due to kidney failure. Fifty years after his death, he was commemorated with a memorial floor stone in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, London.