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From 1917 to 1919 Lewis enrolled himself in the Somerset Light Infantry while attending Keble College.
Lewis graduated from Oxford University in 1923. He tutored in English at Magdalen College for nearly thirty years. From 1954 to 1963 Lewis became a professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. Many said the young professors lectures were crowded and that Lewis’ memory was phenomenal; and that he could speak spontaneously about Greek and Latin texts with out notes. (Kirjasto 2).
While working at the Magdalen College in Oxford as an English tutor, Lewis formed a literary group called “The Inklings”. In the group, many well-respected writers joined their weekly meetings, such as, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Wiliiams. They met Tuesday during lunchtime at the Bird and Baby Pub, which many people in Oxford began to notice. Lewis said that he preferred only men at his meetings; he said women’s minds were “intrinsically inferior to men’s” (Kirjasto 1). After Williams’s death in 1945, they stopped meeting so regularly. The meetings eventually came to a close in 1949.
Through all of this Lewis grew as a person. He was raised as an atheist by his father but searched for a new meaning in his life as young as the age of thirteen. “The watershed in Lewis’s life was his conversion from atheism to Christianity. He had began to lose his faith at the age of thirteen, partly due to his deep-rooted pessimism. After abandoning his youthful snobbery, he became a deist in 1929.” (Kirjasto 2). This had a tremendous impact on Lewis’s works; it also brought him worldwide fame. Lewis’s works have been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold more than a million copies per year. The books in The Chronicles of Narnia series have sold more than 100 million copies and translated into forty-one languages (Kirjasto 3).

The Chronicles of Narnia series have become Lewis’s most renowned works. Lewis said, “I wrote the...