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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: C. S. Lewis, John Updike, G. K. Chesterton, Henry James, Flannery O'Connor, Lew Wallace, George MacDonald, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Tim LaHaye, Theodore Beale, Joel C. Rosenberg, W. E. Cule, Ted Dekker, Frank E. Peretti, Tamera Alexander, Bodie and Brock Thoene, Ray Blackston, Francine Rivers, Deborah Raney, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Jerry B. Jenkins, Donita K. Paul, Ruth Munce, Randy Alcorn, Tosca Lee, Melody Carlson, Catherine Marshall, Lori Wick, Linda Chaikin, Joe Hilley, Shane Johnson, Timothy Fish, V. Neil Wyrick, Haito, Bo Giertz, Lois T. Henderson, Su Xuelin, Robert Whitlow, Jeanette Windle, Jerry D. Thomas, John Bibee, David Gregory, W. G. Griffiths. Excerpt: Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 - 22 November 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack," was a British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Ireland. He is well known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings." According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised in the Church of Ireland (part of the Anglican Communion) at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends, at the age of 32 Lewis returned to the Anglican Communion, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England." His faith had a profound effect on his work, and his wartime radio broadcasts on the subject of Christianity brought him wide acclaim. In 1956 he married the American writer Joy Gresham, 17 years his junior, who died four years...
