| − | '''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]]'' (3 books), ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' and, before that, ''[[The Screwtape Letters]]''. It is estimated that more than 200 million copies of his books, which total 21, have sold. |
| | 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. | | 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. |