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Held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.
Clive Staple Lewis born in Belfast, Ireland.
Lewis’s mother, Florence Augusta (‘Flora’) Hamilton Lewis, dies.
Sent to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire, England.
Enrolls as boarding student at Campbell College, Belfast, Ireland; leaves in December due to respiratory problems.
Enrolls at Cherboug House near Malvern College, England; abandons his Christian faith.
Is privately tutored by W. T. "The Great Knock" Kirkpatrick.
Meets Arthur Greeves, who becomes a lifelong friend.
Receives a scholarship to University College, Oxford.
Enlists in British Army.
Discharged from British Army.
Wounded in Battle of Arras.
Publishes Spirits in Bondage under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.
Appointed English Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he tutors English Language and Literature.
Publishes Dymer under the pseudonym Clive Hamilton.
Meets friend and colleague J.R.R. Tolkien.
Abandons atheism and converts to theism.
Lewis’s father, Albert Lewis, dies in Belfast.
Converts to Christianity.
Publishes The Pilgrim’s Regress.
Publishes The Allegory of Love.
Publishes the first novel in the Space Trilogy series, Out of the Silent Planet.
Publishes The Problem of Pain.
Begins war-time broadcast talks on Christianity, later collected as Mere Christianity.
Publishes A Preface to Paradise Lost.
Publishes Broadcast Talks, based on BBC recordings.
Publishes The Screwtape Letters.
Publishes the second novel in the Space Trilogy series, Perelandra.
Publishes Christian Behaviour, based on BBC recordings.
Publishes The Abolition of Man.
Publishes Beyond Personality, based on BBC recordings.
Publishes the third novel in the Space Trilogy series, That Hideous Strength.
Awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the University of St. Andrews.
Publishes The Great Divorce.
Appears on the cover of Time magazine.
Publishes Miracles.
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Publishes The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses.
Publishes the first novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Publishes the second novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia.
Publishes the third novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Publishes Mere Christianity, which combines previously published Broadcast Talks (1942), Christian Behavior (1943), and Beyond Personality (1944).
Publishes the fourth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Silver Chair.
Publishes English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.
Publishes the fifth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Horse and His Boy.
Becomes chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge.
Publishes Surprised By Joy.
Publishes the sixth novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Magician’s Nephew.
Publishes Till We Have Faces.
Marries Joy Davidman Gresham.
Publishes the seventh, and final, novel in the Chronicles of Narnia series, The Last Battle.
Publishes Reflections on the Psalms.
Becomes, with T. S. Eliot, a member of the Commission to Revise the Psalter.
Publishes Studies in Words.
Lewis’s wife dies.
Publishes The Four Loves.
Publishes An Experiment in Criticism.
Publishes A Grief Observed under the pseudonym N. W. Clerk.
C.S. Lewis dies at the age of 64.
Posthumously publishes The Discarded Image.
Posthumously publishes Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer.
Posthumously publishes Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature.