C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Ireland on November 29th, 1898 a man of Welsh, English and Irish ancestry. He was born into the Church of Ireland, a Irish denomination of the Protestant Anglican Church, or Church of England, and became a atheist in his young adulthood. He became interested in literature and became a leader of the literary group "The Inklings" at Oxford University and lived off of literature as a author, becoming a noted Midieval historian, philosopher, and inspired by his friend Tolkein, a fantasy writer. He eventually became increasingly interested in religion again and sought to become a Christian once more, and was going to become a Roman Catholic under inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkein, many of his other friends and his own conscience. He however was pressured by his family to remain a Protestant, and thus he ardently joined the Church of England, or Anglican Church, which gave a considerable blow to his friendship with his friend J.R.R. Tolkein, a devout Roman Catholic. Shortly after, C.S. Lewis became a theologian by writing several texts of Christian apologetics which were non-denominational, yet seemingly the texts were more leaned to be papist and Roman Catholic, giving the basis for beliefs he was baptized a Protestant but remained in belief a Roman Catholic. C.S. Lewis became interested in fiction and novelism early in his childhood, especially fond of fables, he enjoyed stories of animals and fantasy, eventually creating a fictional world with his brother called Boxen, which he made ran by animals. C.S. Lewis noted several times in his life to be fond of sado-masochism, and suffered a moral downfall after enlisting in the British Army in 1917 and fighting in World War One, fighting in the front lines at Somme Valley in France and becoming wounded at the Battle of Arras by Central Power troops which resulted in a depression. His relationship with his father detiorated and only Janet Moore would visit him, a widow who lost her son in World War One, her son being one of Lewis' friends and squad-mates. He died un-married and without family in November 22nd, 1963, after entering the science-fiction genre with Space Trilogy and becomnig famous after writing his collected masterpeice the Chronicles of Narnia.