Clive Staples Lewis was a British writer, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
Lewis in 1947
Little Lea, home of the Lewis family from 1905 to 1930
Plaque on a park-bench in Bangor, County Down
The undergraduates of University College, Trinity term 1917. C. S. Lewis standing on the right-hand side of the back row.
Magdalen College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. It was founded in 1458 by Bishop of Winchester William of Waynflete. It is one of the wealthiest Oxford colleges, as of 2022, and one of the strongest academically, setting the record for the highest Norrington Score in 2010 and topping the table twice since then. It is home to several of the university's distinguished chairs, including the Agnelli-Serena Professorship, the Sherardian Professorship, and the four Waynflete Professorships.
The Cloister and Founders’ Tower
The Expulsion of the Fellows, 1687 by Joseph Tonneau (1884).
View across the Cloister. The far side is the hall (left) and chapel, behind is the Great Tower.
The interior of the chapel, showing Wyatt's plaster roof