Clyde Staples Lewis Research Paper

Clyde Staples Lewis, author of the well-loved Chronicles of Narnia series, was born to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis in 1898 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Lewis was the younger of two sons; he had a brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, who had been born in 1895. Lewis went by the nickname of “Jack”, a name which he apparently gave himself and which stuck (Biography.com).
When he was 10, his mother died of cancer, and he and Warren were sent to Wynyard School in England. After this, he attended Campbell College back in Belfast, but because of health issues he was only able to remain there for one term. From 1911 to 1913, he attended Cherbourg School in England like his brother Warren. This time of his life was when he developed an interest in Norse mythology and Wagner’s music and was sadly the …show more content…
These included his “Right and Wrong” talks in 1941, the “What Christians Believe” and “Christian Behavior” talks in 1942, and the non-radio “…Riddell Memorial Lectures (15th Series), a series of three lectures subsequently published as The Abolition of Man” (Visser). Several of his books were published gradually, such as the Screwtape Letters, which were published from May to November of 1941, and The Great Divorce, which was published in The Guardian, also over a period of months.
Lewis did not marry until later in life. In 1952 he had met an American woman, Joy Davidman Gresham, who had formerly been Jewish but had converted to Christianity as a result of Lewis’ influence. She was now divorced because her husband had left her. She wanted to stay in England, and the only way she could do that was for her to marry a citizen. So Lewis married her legally in 1956 in a civil marriage. In 1957, while Joy was in the hospital for life-threatening cancer, Lewis married her in the Church of England. Joy improved dramatically, but died in 1960. Lewis died three years