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C.S. Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1898.

He would die in 1963 and what a life he lived.

He was known as Jack, and as far as we can tell, that was because of one of his dog's names

from his early childhood, who was Jackson and C.S. Lewis accepted that name and adopted

that name for himself.

He was an Oxbridge scholar, which meant that he had a position at both Oxford University

and Cambridge University.

He's been hailed as a philosopher, an apologist, a theologian.

Of course, he's probably best known for his narnia chronicles.

His actual profession was as a professor, a chair of medieval and Renaissance literature.

Well, let's take a look at his life and let's bring one piece of that life to the surface

and that is C.S. Lewis as essayist.

While he was baptized as a child into the Anglican Church as a teenager, he drifted

into agnosticism, and then at the ripe age of 15, he declared himself to be an atheist.

As a teenager, he also loved epic poetry.

He was taken by Norse mythology and all of the medieval literature.

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