- His speech patterns, and some aspects of his personalities, were the basis for the character of Treebeard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- Died on 22 November 1963, the same day as writer Aldous Huxley and President John F. Kennedy, as result of the various illnesses Lewis had.
- A close personal friend of J.R.R. Tolkien.
- The head of his boarding school was a cruel tyrant who was later committed to an insane asylum. As a result, bad teachers and poor schools are frequently mentioned in his books.
- In the Narnia Chronicles, Lewis often uses relevant words from foreign languages to name important characters. For instance, "aslan" is the Turkish word for "lion," and the French word "jadis" means "of old" (in his first Narnia book, "The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe"). Lewis says that the White Witch, whose name is later revealed to be Jadis, uses the "Old Magic," but Aslan's magic is even older.
- He based Ransom, the main character in two of the works in his Perlandra trilogy, after his friend J.R.R. Tolkien.
- For many years, the Narnia books were read in the same order in which they were written and published: 1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) 2. Prince Caspian (1951) 3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) 4. The Silver Chair (1953) 5. The Horse and His Boy (1954) 6. The Magician's Nephew (1955) 7. The Last Battle (1956)
In recent years, the books' publishers have reordered them so that the stories take place in a more chronological order: 1. The Magician's Nephew 2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe 3. The Horse and His Boy 4. Prince Caspian 5. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 6. The Silver Chair 7. The Last Battle
The "correct" order in which one should read The Chronicals of Narnia is a subject of fierce debate, with both orders having their defenders and attackers. - When he married Joy Gresham, she had already been married to and divorced from her first husband, Bill Gresham. Lewis adopted the Greshams' two sons, David and Douglas, and made them the heirs to his estate, including the royalties to the Narnia books.
- As a child he never liked his birth names, Clive Staples. When his dog Jacksie got run down, he announced that he would always be known by the name of his dead dog. It developed from "Jacksie" to "Jack" over the years. Many of his fans refer to him as "Jack Lewis.".
- C.S. Lewis wrote 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' for his Goddaughter, Lucy.
- Member of the Oxford literary circle the 'Inklings' along with writers J.R.R. Tolkien, Jeremy Dyson, Charles Williams, Nevill Coghill, and Owen Barfield. Another member of the Inkings was the writer Roger Lancelyn Green who wrote books for children. His best known book was his version of the King Arthur legends called 'King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table'.
- He was home-schooled until the age of ten. His mother taught him French and Latin and his governess taught him all other subjects.
- Sci-fi master Arthur C. Clarke regards Lewis' two books "Out of the Silent Planet" and "Perelandra" as "two of the very few works of space fiction that can be classed as literature."
- He allegedly declined British knighthood for his services to literature.
- As with what happened to J.K. Rowling with her Harry Potter series, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe", the first book of C.S. Lewis's seven-book series "The Chronicles of Narnia", suffered an alteration made by American publishers. The book features a wolf named Maugrim, whose name was changed to Fenris Ulf in the American publication. The sixth book of the series is entitled "The Magician's Nephew" and tells how the Land of Narnia was created and discovered by Professor Digory Kirke when he was a boy.
- Joined the Somerset Light Infantry, a regiment of the British Army, in World War I.
- His life and work seem to have attracted the attention of both of the actors who have played Hannibal Lecter. Lewis was played by Anthony Hopkins in Shadowlands (1993), and his character Aslan was to be voiced by Brian Cox in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) before the filmmakers changed their minds and replaced Cox with Liam Neeson.
- Died a week before his 65th birthday.
- Author Neil Gaiman is a big fan of Lewis. He read the entire Chronicles of Narnia after seeing The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (1988).
- The play of "Shadowlands" by William Nicholson about the relationship between C. S. Lewis and the American writer Joy Gresham. ran in London, directed by Elijah Moshinsky starring Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Lapotaire, opened in Plymouth and then transferred West End from October 1989 until September 1990. The production was successfully transferred to Broadway from November 1990 to April 1991 with Nigel Hawthorne and Jane Alexander. The play was an adaptation of Shadowlands (1986) with Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom, also followed by its film adaptation in Shadowlands (1993) with Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.
- In "Moral Crusader" mode, was a proponent of carbolic-based aversion therapy and worse.
- Cited Scottish fantasy writer George MacDonald as his greatest influence.
- He cited Scottish fantasy author George MacDonald as his greatest inspiration.
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