C. S. Lewis

C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) was a British scholar, novelist, and Christian apologist whose range of achievement is almost without parallel in twentieth-century letters. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he lost his mother at nine, endured brutal English boarding schools, and was wounded in the trenches of World War I before settling into an academic career at Oxford and later Cambridge, where he became one of the foremost medievalists and literary historians of his generation. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Chronicles of Narnia.