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C. S. Lewis

1898 - 1963

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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) 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 was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. C. S. Lewis is the 247th most popular writer (up from 311th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 215th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Writer.

C.S. Lewis is most famous for his series The Chronicles of Narnia.

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Among writers, C. S. Lewis ranks 247 out of 7,302. Before him are Juvenal, Ferdowsi, Prosper Mérimée, Lou Andreas-Salomé, W. H. Auden, and Gerhart Hauptmann. After him are Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Osamu Dazai, Grazia Deledda, Henrik Pontoppidan, and Dario Fo.

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Among people born in 1898, C. S. Lewis ranks 17. Before him are Zhou Enlai, Leo Szilard, William James Sidis, M. C. Escher, Albert Lutuli, and George Gershwin. After him are Herbert Marcuse, Liu Shaoqi, Karl Ziegler, Trofim Lysenko, Gunnar Myrdal, and Julius Evola. Among people deceased in 1963, C. S. Lewis ranks 12. Before him are Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, W. E. B. Du Bois, Tristan Tzara, and Lee Harvey Oswald. After him are Ngo Dinh Diem, Thích Quảng Đức, Francis Poulenc, Abd el-Krim, Theodor Heuss, and Sylvia Plath.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, C. S. Lewis ranks 230 out of 8,785. Before him are William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Humphry Davy (1778), T. E. Lawrence (1888), Marie of Romania (1875), Joseph Priestley (1733), and Ringo Starr (1940). After him are Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), Æthelstan (895), John Wycliffe (1324), Brian May (1947), Sting (1951), and Robert Owen (1771).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, C. S. Lewis ranks 26. Before him are Charlotte Brontë (1816), Geoffrey Chaucer (1343), Aldous Huxley (1894), Terry Pratchett (1948), William Blake (1757), and W. H. Auden (1907). After him are J. K. Rowling (1965), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759), Arthur C. Clarke (1917), Anne Brontë (1820), William Golding (1911), and Roald Dahl (1916).

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