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Lewis, C(live) S(taples)
English academic and writer, born in Belfast. He became a committed Christian in 1931 and wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven novels of Christian allegory for children set in the magic land of Narnia, beginning with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950).
His other works include the medieval study The Allegory of Love (1936) and the space fiction Out of the Silent Planet (1938). He wrote essays in popular theology such as The Screwtape Letters (1942) and Mere Christianity (1952), and the autobiographical Surprised by Joy (1955).
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