![]() ![]() perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England." He is celebrated for his famous series of children's books, the Narnia Chronicles (which have been filmed and broadcast many times), as well as his literary criticism and science fiction. Lewis was for many years an atheist, until his conversion, memorably described in his autobiography 'Surprised by Joy': "I gave in, and admitted that God was God. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. Lewis’ book Surprised by Joy was published in 1955, a year before his civil wedding and two years before his church-sanctioned ceremony. Biography: Born in Ireland in 1898, Clive Staples Lewis gained a triple First at Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College from 1925-54, where he was a contemporary of Tolkien. ![]()
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