Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1898, C.S. Lewis was a British scholar and author best known for his beloved children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia, including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, considered the most popular children’s book of the twentieth century.
He was also an articulate theologian who wrote the celebrated apologetic work Mere Christianity, based on a series of BBC Radio talks given during World War II, as well as the satire The Screwtape Letters. As a tutor at Oxford University and later as Chair of Medieval Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Lewis published various works of literary criticism that remain standard reading today.