Author Fun Facts: C.S. Lewis

Hey Everyone!

So today I decided to do another one of my author fun facts posts. Today’s author is C.S. Lewis, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia Series. I will admit other than that I really don’t know much about this author, and I haven’t even read The Chronicles of Narnia, but I have seen the movies. I figured if I didn’t know much about him, there are probably more people who don’t know that much either, so I decided to learn more about him.

Let’s get this list of facts started!

His full name is Clive Staples Lewis
He was born on November 29, 1898 in Ireland
He wrote around 40 books during his lifetime
He started reading by the age of three, and writing by the age of five
He served in the Somerset Light infantry during World War 1
He became a professor at the University of Cambridge teaching Medieval and Renaissance English
The Chronicles of Narnia first book, has been listed by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 English language novels
His first book was published in 1919, titled Spirits in Bondage. He published the book under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton
While teaching at Magdalen C.S. Lewis joined a group of writers and intellectuals including J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis’ own brother Warren Lewis. They called themselves The Inklings
He won the Hawthornden Prize for his book The Allegory of Love, released in 1936
He began publishing the series The Chronicles of Narnia in the 1950s. The first book The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, was published in 1950
He died on November 22, 1963 due to kidney failure

I hope you were able to learn something new about this amazing author, like I did. If you know any other facts about C.S. Lewis, please feel free to include them in the notes below!

To read more about this author, please visit these websites where I got the facts from above from:

http://www.softschools.com/facts/authors/cs_lewis_facts/1381/

http://www.cslewis.org/resource/cslewis/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/C-S-Lewis