Category: Fantasy/Science Fiction

Lifespan: (November 29, 1898 –November 22, 1963)

Interesting & Unique Facts: Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings."

Lewis's works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold more than a million copies per year. The books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia have sold more than 100 million copies.

In addition to his career as an English professor and an author of fiction, Lewis is regarded by many as one of the most influential Christian apologists of his time. Mere Christianity was voted best book of the twentieth century by Christianity Today in 2000.

Author's work in order (with publication dates):

Chronicles of Narnia (Chronological Order)

• The Magician's Nephew
• The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
• The Horse & his Boy
• Prince Caspain
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Silver Chair
• The Last Battle

Chronicles of Narnia (Publication Order)

• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950)
• Prince Caspian (1951)
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952)
• The Silver Chair (1953)
• The Horse and His Boy (1954)
• The Magician's Nephew (1955)
• The Last Battle (1956)

Space Trilogy

• Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
• Perelandra(1943) [aka Voyage to Venus]
• That Hideous Strength (1946)

Non-Series Works

• The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
• The Screwtape Letters (1942)
• The Great Divorce (1945)
• Till We Have Faces (1956)
• Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1961) [an addition to The Screwtape Letters]
• Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (1964)
• The Dark Tower (1977)
• Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis (1985) [ed. Walter Hooper]