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C.S Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland on November 29, 1898(Benbow). His full name was Clive Staples Lewis (BBC). On his 65th birthday, Lewis died on November 22, 1963, in Oxford England. Lewis’s parents were “ulster protestants” and would go to church every Sunday. Lewis moved around a lot and went to different kinds of schools. First, his father signed him and his brother Warren to the English boarding school of Wynyard, they were really close then but hated it at Wynyard. Jack escaped the school and got into to Malvern College. Afterward, he went to teach at Oxford University and met his beloved wife there.
As a child Clive declared his name to be Jack, so his friends and family went along with it and called him Jack (BBC). In 1956 C.S

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