C.S. Lewis

C.S.

Lewis was a British writer and scholar (1898–1963) best known for *The Chronicles of Narnia* fantasy series and Christian apologetics like *Mere Christianity* and *The Screwtape Letters*.

An Oxford and Cambridge professor of medieval literature, Lewis became one of the twentieth century's most influential Christian thinkers.

He was close friends with J.R.R.

Tolkien.

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Philip Pullman · Virginia Woolf · Aldous Huxley · James Joyce · Samuel Beckett

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Virginia Woolf · E.M. Forster · modernists

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