She and Lewis had been corresponding for a time, and Lewis originally saw her as an intellectual equal and a friend. He agreed to marry her so that she could stay in the United Kingdom. When she saw the doctor for a painful hip, she was diagnosed with bone cancer, and the two grew closer.
Eventually the relationship developed to the point that they sought a Christian marriage in , which was performed at Joy's bedside. When the cancer went into remission, the couple enjoyed several years together, continuing to live as a family with Warren Lewis. When her cancer returned, however, she died in Lewis anonymously published his journals at the time in a book called A Grief Observed, where he admitted to a grief so great that it saw him doubting God, but felt blessed to have experienced true love.
In June , Lewis fell ill with nephritis and took the autumn term off at Cambridge. By , he felt well enough to continue teaching. When he fell ill again in and suffered a heart attack, he resigned his post at Cambridge. He was diagnosed with end-stage renal failure and died in November of He is buried in Headington, Oxford, alongside his brother Warren. Lewis is seen as one of the founding fathers of the genre of fantasy.
He continues to be considered one of Britain's most important writers, and has been the subject of several biographies. Lewis can be seen as a foundational influence in all modern fantasy literature, from Harry Potter to Game of Thrones. Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, is seen as almost an anti-Lewis due to his stark atheism.
Critique of Lewis ranges from sexism focusing on the role of Susan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe , racism the Arab-inflected world of The Horse and His Boy , and hidden religious propaganda.
While readers of Lewis often are surprised by the Christian underpinnings to much of his work, his Narnia series is one of the most beloved of all children's literature.
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Lewis, a lawyer, and Flora August Hamilton Lewis, a mathematician expert in mathematics , whose father was a minister. At four years old he told his parents that he wanted to be called "Jack" Lewis, and his family and friends referred to him that way for the rest of his life. Jack's best friend as a boy was his older brother Warren. They did everything together and even created their own made-up country, Boxen, going so far as to create many individual characters and a four-hundred-year history of the country.
Lewis's mother, who had tutored him in French and Latin, died when he was ten years old. After spending a year in studies at Malvern College, a boarding school in England, he continued his education privately under a tutor named W. Kirkpatrick, former headmaster principal of Lurgan College. During World War I —18 , which began as a conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia but eventually involved much of Europe, Lewis served as a second lieutenant in the English army, interrupting his career as a scholar that he had begun in at University College, Oxford.
Wounded in the war, he returned to Oxford, where he was appointed lecturer at University College in In he was appointed fellow performing advanced study or research and tutor at Magdalen College, England, where he gave lectures on English literature.
In Lewis's first publication, Dymer, appeared under the pseudonym fake writing name Clive Hamilton. Dymer revealed Lewis's gift for satire a work of literature that makes fun of human vice or foolishness. The Pilgrims' Regress, an allegory an expression of truths about human existence using symbols published in , presented an apology for Christianity. It was not until the appearance of his second allegorical work, The Allegory of Love , however, that Lewis was honored with the coveted Hawthornden prize.
Since the previous April, she had been confined to a nursing home in Oxford. Lewis lost the election for the position of Professor of Poetry at Oxford to C. Day Lewis. In December, he declined election to the Order of the British Empire. In September, he met Joy Davidman Gresham, fifteen years his junior b. April 18, — d. July 13, , for the first time. Lewis assumed his duties at Cambridge in January. During his years at Cambridge, he lived at Magdalene College, Cambridge, during the week in term and at The Kilns in Oxford on weekends and during vacations.
On April 23, he entered into a civil marriage with Joy Davidman at the Oxford Registry Office for the purpose of conferring upon her the status of British citizenship in order to prevent her threatened deportation by British migration authorities. In December, a bedside marriage was performed in accordance with the rites of the Church of England in Wingfield Hospital.
Throughout , Joy had experienced an extraordinary recovery from her near terminal bout with cancer. Lewis wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. To date, the Narnia books have sold over million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.
Enrolls as boarding student at Campbell College, Belfast, Ireland; leaves in December due to respiratory problems. Publishes Spirits in Bondage under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton. Publishes The Allegory of Love. Buy this book. Publishes The Problem of Pain. Begins war-time broadcast talks on Christianity, later collected as Mere Christianity. Publishes The Screwtape Letters.
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