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Clive Staples Lewis
Birth at
29 November 1964
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Clive Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 29, 1898. After graduating from high school in 1917, he entered University College Oxford. However, he did not study there for long. After dropping out of college, he goes to military service in the British army. Wounded in 1918, he demobilized and, returning to college, graduated. For the first time in the literary field, Clive Lewis tried himself in 1919, released a collection of poems “The Oppressed Spirit”, using the pseudonym Clive
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Clive Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on November 29, 1898. After graduating from high school in 1917, he entered University College Oxford. However, he did not study there for long. After dropping out of college, he goes to military service in the British army. Wounded in 1918, he demobilized and, returning to college, graduated. For the first time in the literary field, Clive Lewis tried himself in 1919, released a collection of poems “The Oppressed Spirit”, using the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.
In 1923, Lewis defended his bachelor’s degree, then received a master’s degree and began teaching philology. He did this until 1954, working at Magdalena College.
He combines his work as a teacher with literary activity. In 1931, a collection of his poems “Dimer” was published. In 1931, he became a willing Christian. This decision was greatly influenced by a conversation with J. R. R. Tolkien, who was a zealous Catholic.
In 1938, his sci-fi work Beyond the Silent Planet was published. But the world writer’s fame brought him a series of works “The Chronicles of Narnia”, the first novel of which, the work “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”, was published in 1950. The writer has been working on this cycle of novels for five years.
In 1954, Lewis moved from Oxford to Cambridge, where he continued teaching. Two years after moving, he marries Joy Davidman.
In 1963, the writer had to stop working as a teacher due to health problems. He was diagnosed with kidney and heart disease. That same year, Clive Lewis died. Before his 65th birthday, he did not live one week.