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'''Clive Staples Lewis''' (born November 29, 1898, [[Belfast]] - d. November 22, 1963, [[Oxford]]) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] writer, novelist, essayist, moral mythologist, philosopher and a world-acclaimed master of [[Christian apologetics]].  He is considered by many to have been the greatest intellectual defender of [[Christianity]] in the 20th century.  He is famous for writing ''[[Mere Christianity]]'', ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' and, before that, ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''.

'''Clive Staples Lewis''' (born November 29, 1898, [[Belfast]] - d. November 22, 1963, [[Oxford]]) was an [[Ireland|Irish]] writer, novelist, essayist, moral mythologist, philosopher and a world-acclaimed master of [[Christian apologetics]].  He is considered by many to have been the greatest intellectual defender of [[Christianity]] in the 20th century.  He is famous for writing ''[[Mere Christianity]]'', ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' and, before that, ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''.

He first married at age 57 to an [[American]] woman with children, who had converted to [[Christianity]] from [[atheistic]] [[communism]] by reading C.S. Lewis's writings.  One of his adopted sons later described him as someone who would have opposed [[abortion]] today.<ref>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2022/05/24/what-c-s-lewis-would-have-thought-about-abortion/</ref>  A frugal man, C.S. Lewis walked 3.5 miles to work.  He died the same day that [[JFK]] was assassinated.

He first married at age 57 to an [[American]] woman with children, who had converted to [[Christianity]] from [[atheistic]] [[communism]] by reading C.S. Lewis's writings.  One of his adopted sons later described him as someone who would have opposed [[abortion]] today.<ref>https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2022/05/24/what-c-s-lewis-would-have-thought-about-abortion/</ref>  A frugal man, C.S. Lewis walked 3.5 miles to work.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-T81HZGtTY Brief video presentation]</ref> He died the same day that [[JFK]] was assassinated.

==Early life==

==Early life==

The second son of Albert James Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis, whose father was a [[Church of Ireland]] minister, he was born in Belfast [[Ireland]] and [[infant baptism|baptized as an infant]] in the [[Anglican]] church at St Mark's Dundela, Belfast. Aged 4, after his pet dog "Jacksie" was killed by a car, Lewis declared that ''his'' name was now ''Jacksie''. This later became truncated to ''Jacks'' then ''Jack'', the name used by friends and family for the rest of his life. His older brother was Warren Hamilton Lewis (1895 - 1973) whom C.&nbsp;S. referred to as "Warnie" and described as "''my dearest and closest friend.''" The brothers formed a very close bond playing together at home, writing and illustrating stories for their fictional world called "Boxen", a world populated by dressed, talking animals, and obviously the precursor of the land of [[Narnia]], the magical land of children's adventures that retell the story of the [[Creation]], [[Fall of Man|Fall]], and [[Redemption]] of humankind. Lewis loved to read, and as his father's house was filled with books, he felt that finding a book he had not read was as easy as "finding a blade of grass." The "reality" he found on the pages of this extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that transpired outside in the "real world", and he has said of these childhood years that "''at the age of seven, and eight, I was living almost entirely in my imagination; or at least that the imaginative experience of those years now seems to me more important than anything else.''"<ref>'''Lewis, C. S.''', ''Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life'', London: Harvest Books (1955) ISBN 0-1568-7011-8</ref>

The second son of Albert James Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis, whose father was a [[Church of Ireland]] minister, he was born in Belfast [[Ireland]] and [[infant baptism|baptized as an infant]] in the [[Anglican]] church at St Mark's Dundela, Belfast. Aged 4, after his pet dog "Jacksie" was killed by a car, Lewis declared that ''his'' name was now ''Jacksie''. This later became truncated to ''Jacks'' then ''Jack'', the name used by friends and family for the rest of his life. His older brother was Warren Hamilton Lewis (1895 - 1973) whom C.&nbsp;S. referred to as "Warnie" and described as "''my dearest and closest friend.''" The brothers formed a very close bond playing together at home, writing and illustrating stories for their fictional world called "Boxen", a world populated by dressed, talking animals, and obviously the precursor of the land of [[Narnia]], the magical land of children's adventures that retell the story of the [[Creation]], [[Fall of Man|Fall]], and [[Redemption]] of humankind. Lewis loved to read, and as his father's house was filled with books, he felt that finding a book he had not read was as easy as "finding a blade of grass." The "reality" he found on the pages of this extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that transpired outside in the "real world", and he has said of these childhood years that "''at the age of seven, and eight, I was living almost entirely in my imagination; or at least that the imaginative experience of those years now seems to me more important than anything else.''"<ref>'''Lewis, C. S.''', ''Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life'', London: Harvest Books (1955) ISBN 0-1568-7011-8</ref>