Born in Ireland in 1898, C.S. Lewis gained a triple First at Oxford and was Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College from 1925-1954. In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge. C.S. Lewis was for many years an atheist, and described his conversion in his autobiography Surprised by Joy thus: "In the Trinity Term of 1929, I gave in and admitted that God was God . perhaps the most dejected and reluctant convert in al England." One of the most gifted and influential Christian writers of the twentieth century, he is also celebrated for his award-winning Narnia stories, his literary criticism and science fiction. C.S. Lewis died on 22nd November 1963.