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C. S. Lewis

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Also known as Clive Hamilton, N. W. Clerk, CS Lewis, Clive Staples Lewis, C.S. Lewis, Clive Lewis, Nat Whilk

British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)

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C. S. Lewis was a British writer, poet, university teacher, and novelist. Born in Belfast on 29 November 1898, he was educated at Malvern College and University College, Oxford. He served as a teacher at Magdalen College and participated in World War I. His notable works include The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Space Trilogy. He was associated with the Inklings movement and held beliefs ranging from atheism to Anglicanism.

Lewis died in Oxford on 22 November 1963 from natural causes. He was married to Joy Davidman and had a child named Douglas Gresham. His residence included Belfast and Oxford. He was nominated for the Prometheus Award and the Gandalf Award. His works have been referenced by other encyclopedia articles, and his writings cover genres such as apologetics.

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Person · Open Library

Born
29 November 1898
Died
22 November 1963
Works
1419

Top works

  • Hideous strength
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Nisim
  • Vivisection
  • Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (SparkNotes Literature Guide)

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Writing · Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [now Ireland]

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The…

Known for

  • Through Joy and Beyond — Self (archive footage)1979

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United Kingdom
Active from
1898
Active to
1963
apologeticsauthorhas german audiobooks

Discography

Official siteDiscogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
4,471
Total plays
153,844

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Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/C.+S.+Lewis">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

  1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

    · 1951 · cited 249,217x

  2. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,878x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,438x

  4. Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition

    · 1991 · cited 22,142x

  5. Grey Wolf Optimizer

    · 2014 · cited 18,311x

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Quotes

  • “I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do — so much have I enjoyed it.”
  • “But the man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.”
  • “I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
  • “Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I shd. say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'”
  • “For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
  • “Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles and The Problem of Pain.

Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both men served on the English faculty at the University of Oxford and were active in the informal Oxford literary group known as the Inklings. According to Lewis's 1955 memoir Surprised by Joy, he was baptized 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.

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