This volume contains a brief biography, full of fact and only necessary comment. It also includes summaries of Lewis's main works, sections on key ideas and people, and a comprehensive list of all Lewis's writings.

Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis: by Owen Barfield, ED. G. B. Tennyson (The Barfield Press)

This book offers thought-provoking insights from the man Lewis described as the "wisest and best of my unofficial teachers."

C.S. Lewis: A Biography by Roger Lancelyn Green and Walter Hooper (HarperCollins Entertainment)

Green and Hooper's reliable account is the first "official" biography and is in many ways the best, especially now that it has been updated.

Remembering C.S. Lewis: Recollections of Those Who Knew Him by ED. James T. Como (Ignatius Press)

This collection—which contains 24 snapshots of Lewis from friends, colleagues, and students—is full of color, humor, and human interest.

The Cambridge: Companion to C.S. Lewis by EDs. Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward (Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis Cambridge Companion compiles 21 scholarly but accessible discussions of Lewis's works by theology and literature professors from the United Kingdom and North America.

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Michael Ward is the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2008) and of The Narnia Code (Tyndale, 2010), available from ChristianBook.com and other retailers.

C. S. Lewis: A Complete Guide to his Life and Works, Owen Barfield on C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis: A Biography, Remembering C. S. Lewis, The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis, and many, many other books with the name "C.S. Lewis" ...

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