by Kay
C.S. Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist. He was a close friend and colleague of J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) who was instrumental in Lewis' conversion to Christianity. This conversion had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on Christianity brought wide acclaim. In 1956, he married Joy Gresham who died four years later. Their story is told in the movie Shadowlands.
The Chronicles of Narnia contain Christian themes and ideas. The Great Divorce is a short novella in which residents of Hell take a bus ride to Heaven, and Screwtape Letters consists
of advice from a devil to his nephew on how to lead humans into sin. He also wrote The Four Loves and Mere Christianity which was voted the best book of the 20th century by 'Christianity Today' in 2000. The first two books of Narnia have been made into movies in 2005 and 2008. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is to be released in 2010.
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