In external events, the life of Clive Staples Lewis offers little promising material to a biographer. He pursued sedentary work as a literature professor and followed a predictable routine for most of his 65 years. We know next to nothing about his service in World War I (which he barely addresses in his autobiography) and little more about his romantic life, in spite of the play and film ''Shadowlands" that depicted his five-year relationship with Joy Davidman. [More]

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