C.s. lewis biography a.n. wilson

I would recommend this biography as to anyone who wants to know more about C.S. Lewis. Because of the nature of much of Lewis' writing (in favor of Christianity), many biographers have recast Lewis into an image favored by the biographer's own religious beliefs, so an American fundamentalist biographer ignores Lewis' smoking and drinking, and a British Anglican glosses over the fact that the two women who were Lewis' "life partners" were neither acceptable partners by the standards of Lewis' own Church, the Church of England.

Wilson tries, and I think, succeeds admirably, in painting a portrait of Lewis the man, one based on a careful reading of the author's work, of letters, manuscripts, and other artifacts, and of interviews with many who knew Lewis personally.

The Lewis that emerges is one worth knowing. The flawed man, deeply hurt by the loss of his mother in early childhood, the man who lived, except for the horrors of the trenches in W