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The Mystery of C.S. Lewis
2013
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It looks like a wardrobe, but open it up and it leads you back into a world of childhood – of fantasy. Lewis, now famed the world over as a children’s author and religious apologist, was a university Professor who kept his private life a doggedly guarded secret. Living exclusively in the world of men, his life was really dominated by women – by his mother, whose death when he was a child scarred his whole life; by Jane Moore, with whom he lived for thirty-three years; and by Joy Davidman, the American he married. The mystery of Lewis is deep. He was a man who professed to be ruled by his head, but was manifestly governed by his heart. In THE MAN BEHIND NARNIA, A.N. Wilson, who wrote Lewis' full-length biography over twenty years ago, returns to the theme – having made a television documentary about Lewis and his work. He opens the wardrobe and finds many demons – some are Lewis’s, and some are his own. A.N. Wilson is the author of over forty books – 20 novels, biographies of C.S. Lewis, Tolstoy, and John Milton, a three-part history of the last 100 years, and stories for children.

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A.N. Wilson
A.N. Wilson
Author · 54 books
Andrew Norman Wilson is an English writer and newspaper columnist, known for his critical biographies, novels, works of popular history and religious views. He is an occasional columnist for the Daily Mail and former columnist for the London Evening Standard, and has been an occasional contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer.
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