Known to his friends as 'Jack' (he didn't like 'Clive Staples'), C.S. Lewis was born on the outskirts of Belfast on November 29 1898, and died in his Oxford home, The Kilns, almost 65 years later on November 22 1963.
He was equally a scholar and a storyteller, for years an Oxford don, and then Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge.
C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia are familiar to very many people through television adaptations. The seven books themselves are consistently among the best-selling children's books, and firmly established as classics.
