Biography: The Chronicles of C.S. Lewis

“How a boy of imagination grew up a man of many talented works in many forms as an lecturer, teacher, scholar, writer, and Christian apologetic, and influencer on children’s literature that would let them see a world beyond their own. Clive Staple Lewis would become a teacher to us all, a man who journey through a life of uncertainty and to leave behind lessons for us to follow.”

C.S. Lewis real name (Clive Staple Lewis) born in the outskirts of Belfast, Northern Ireland on Nov. 29, 1898, to the parents of a lawyer, Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton, and his older brother Warren Lewis. The family lived in a home called “Little Tea” a large house. As a child, Lewis would spend most of his time in the library that was filled with books, reading such literature like Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. He even loved Beatrix Potter books that would have the illustrations of animals and that they were anthropomorphic. He would begin writing and illustrating his own works with his brother Warren, creating a world called Boxen, a world of animals. Although, he feared insects and would have nightmares about them.