C. S. Lewis Chronology
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can
satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another
world." C.S. Lewis,
Mere Christianity
1898 C.S. Lewis (Jack) is born
1911 Attends Malvern in
1914 Confirmed at St. Marks in Belfast
1917 Serves in France as part of British army during WWI
1919 Lewis returns to Oxford
1924-25 Philosophy tutor at University College
1925 Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
1929 Converts from atheism to theism for intellectual reasons
1931 His brother Warren returns to Christianity
1931 Famous discussion with Tolkien about Christianity as the fulfillment
of mythology
1931 Conversion to Christianity (during a motorcycle ride with
brother Warren)
1932
Writes to brother Warren about the conversion
1933 The Pilgrim's Regress published by Dent
1936 Allegory of Love published by Oxford UP and Clarendon Press
1937 Tolkien's Hobbitt
is published
1938 Out of the Silent Planet published by Bodley
Head
1939 England declares war
1940 The Problem of Pain published by Centenary Press
1941 First of 31 installments of The Screwtape Letters appears in The Guardian
1941 BBC Radio broadcasts titled "Right and Wrong"
(Became Book
1942 First meeting of the Oxford University Socratic Club
1942 The Screwtape Letters published
1942 First of "Christian Behavior"
talks delivered on BBC Radio (Book
1942 Preface to Paradise Lost published by Oxford
1943 Christian Behaviour (Book
1943 Perelandra published by Bodley Head
1944 First of seven talks entitled "Beyond Personality"
delivered on BBC Radio
1944 Beyond Personality (Book
1944 The Abolition of Man published by Macmillan
1945 That
Hideous Strength published by Bodley Head
1946 The Great Divorce published by Geoffrey Bles
1946 Jack receives an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from St. Andrew's
University
1947 Miracles published by Geoffrey Bles
1948 George Macdonald: An Anthology
published by
1948
Joy and William Gresham convert to Christianity
1950 Jack receives a letter from Joy Davidman Gresham
1950 The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe published by Geoffrey
Bles
1951 Prince Caspian published by Geoffrey Bles
1952 Mere Christianity published by Geoffrey Bles
1952 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader published
by Geoffrey Bles
1952 Jack meets Joy Gresham for lunch at the Eastgate
Hotel
1953 The Silver Chair published by Geoffrey Bles
1954 Jack accepts chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge
University
1954 Joy divorces William Gresham
1954 The Horse and His Boy published by Geoffrey Bles
1954 Completes last tutorial at Magdalen
College, Oxford
1955 The Magician's Nephew published by Bodley
Head
1955 Surprised by Joy published by Geoffrey Bles
1956 Jack and Joy are married at the Oxford Registry Office
1958 Joy's cancer in remission
1958 Reflections on the Psalms published by Geoffrey Bles
1959 Joy's cancer returns
1960 The Four Loves published by Geoffrey Bles
1960 Joy dies
1961 A Grief Observed published by Faber and Faber under the
pseudonym N.W. Clerk
1963 Has a heart attack
1963 Dies at the Kilns, the same day JFK is assassinated
1964 Letters to Malcolm published by Geoffrey Bles
1964 The Discarded
Image is published
Adapted
from http://www.crossroad.to/Excerpts/books/lewis-chronology.htm
Academic year 2008/2009
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