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Clive Staples Lewis (or Jack as he was known to his friends) was born in Belfast, Ireland, onNovember 29th 1898. His mother was Florence Augusta Lewis. His father was Albert James Lewis. He had an senior brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis. When Clive was young his dog Jacksie was killed by a car, he obstinate that his name should be changed to Jacksie, but he was later called Jack. When Clive was seven, his family moved into his nipperhood home, in East Belfast.As a boy, Lewis was fascinated with anthropomorphic (considering animals, objects, etc., as having human qualities) animals. He became fascinated with stories that involved talking animals and he ofttimes wrote and illustrating his own animal stories. Clive loved reading, since back when he was a child there was no television, there wasnt much else to do. Clives fathers dwelling was filled to the ceiling with books, he felt that finding a bleak book to read was as simple as walking into a field and finding a new blade of gra ss.The red-hot House is almost a major character in my story.I am the product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms,upstair interior silences, attics explored in solitude,distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes,and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books. strike by Joy (C. S. Lewis Biography)Clive was taught by private tutors before he was send to the Wynyard School in Watford, Hertfordshire. Lewiss brother had enrolled at Wynyard School three years earlier. The school was closed soon afterwards Clive joined, due to a wishing of students to teach. After the Wynyard School closed, the headmaster Robert Capron was admitted into to a psychiatric hospital (I Searched this and was not able to find out why he was sent to a Psychiatric Hospital). ... ...rrounding cities into The Kilns. Clive tried to re-enter the military, he liberty chited to instruct cadets, but his offer was refused. Clive married a woman named Joy Davidman in 1956, Joy was an American cit izen that had once been an atheist and had converted to Christianity like him. Joy was soon after diagnosed with bone cancer, Joy died in 1960. Clive continued raising Joys two sons (from a previous marriage). In 1961, Clive was diagnosed with Nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys), the Nephritis was caused by a bad blood transfusion during World War One. On November 22nd, only one week before his 65th birthday, Lewis collapsed in his sleeping accommodation at 530 pm and died a few legal proceeding later due to the end stages of kidney failure. There was almost no media reportage of Clive Staples Lewis death due to the fact that US President John F. Kennedy was assassinate that same day.