
And to learn more fascinating trivia about his life, we recommend Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Lewis and the Inklings, C. Lewis, see our pick of his best books and why you should read them. His love of writing began at a young age: as children, he and his brother Warren (‘Warnie’) created the fictional world of Boxen, a box world which featured talking animals including King Bunny – quite fitting for an author who would, as an adult, meet to discuss his writing in a place known as the Rabbit Room in the Eagle and Child pub in Oxford.įor more on C. (The ‘S.’, by the way, stood for Staples.) Lewis’s first name was Clive, but he was known by his friends and family as ‘Jack’.

Lewis’s fictional world-building started at a young age.Ĭ.
