During World War II, he delivered a series of radio addresses that became the basis for his famous work of apologetics, Mere Christianity. Though Lewis had been a staunch atheist since his teen years, he became a Christian in 1931 and remained a committed member of the Church of England for the rest of his life. From 1925–1954, he taught English literature in Oxford’s Magdalen College. He was injured in 1918 and thereafter returned to Oxford, where he studied classics, philosophy, and English literature. Lewis entered Oxford University in 1916, but he was soon sent to France to fight in World War I. As a child, Lewis loved spending time in his father’s massive library, and he lost his mother to cancer around the age of 10.
Growing up, Lewis-who adopted the nickname “Jack” as a young boy-lived in a house in East Belfast that his parents and brother Warren called Little Lea. S.) Lewis was born in Northern Ireland to Albert James Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Lewis, the daughter of a Church of Ireland clergyman.
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