Lewis, C.S.

The British author C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis was born in Belfast. His father was a solicitor. Lewis read philosophy, literature and English at Oxford until 1917, when he served in WWI and was wounded by a British shell near Lilliers in France in April 1918. He taught English literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, between 1925 and 1954 when he accepted the chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. Lewis led a secluded life. His relationship with the American writer Joy Davidman Gresham has been described in Richard Attenborough's film Shadowlands (1993).