C(live) S(taples) Lewis

Lewis, C(live) S(taples) (1898–1963), British author, literary scholar, and defender of Christianity. Of more than 40 books his best-known is The Screwtape Letters (1942), a diabolical view of humanity. The Allegory of Love (1936), his major critical work, studies love in medieval literature. He also wrote a science-fiction trilogy and the Narnia fantasies.