LEWIS, C[live] S[taples].

Lewis, C. S., 1898-1963; Authors; Poets; Novelists

This article features author Clive Staples Lewis. He was born on November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland and died on November 22, 1963 in Cambridge, England. During a career that spanned nearly four decades, Lewis established himself as a literary scholar, poet, novelist, devotional writer, essayist, and children's writer. Educated at Oxford, he was a fellow of Magdalen College from 1925 to 1954 when he became professor of medieval and Renaissance literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge. His earliest publications included two volumes of poetry, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics and Dymer, writing as Clive Hamilton, in 1919 and 1926, respectively.