He and his brother, Warnie, together created the world of Boxen, which was inhabited and run by animals. Lewis had a passion for 'dressed animals' as a boy, falling in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and often writing and illustrating his own animal stories.

Leaving Malvern after a year, Lewis moved on to study privately with William T. Around 1913, he abandoned his childhood Christian faith. Next, Lewis was sent to Cherbourg and then Malvern College in Malvern, Worcestershire. Lewis next attended Campbell College in the east of the city about a mile from his house but only for a few months. This school, Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire was soon closed and the headmaster committed as insane soon afterwards. He was sent to a school in England at age nine following his brother. Lewis' mother died in 1908, and he was schooled by occasional tutors. He had a brother named Warren Hamilton Lewis (Warnie), three years his elder. When he was six his family moved into a new house called Leeborough or Little Lea in Strandtown. At first he would answer to no other name, but later accepted Jacks which became Jack, the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life. At the age of 4, shortly after his dog 'Jacksie' was run over by a car, Lewis announced that his name was now Jacksie. He was also the leading figure in an Oxford literary group called the Inklings.Ĭlive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), to Albert James Lewis and Flora Augusta Hamilton Lewis. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, for his Christian apologetics and for his fiction, especially the children’s series entitled The Chronicles Of Narnia and his science fiction Space Trilogy. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898- 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as Cs Lewis was an Irish author and scholar.

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