Latest News: The film reportedly has Shrek director Andrew Adamson at the helm and Weta, renowned for the award-winning work on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, doing the effects. The cast includes Jim Broadbent and Dawn French. C.S. Lewis - The Oxford Connection Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast on the 29th of November 1898. Oxford first encountered him in 1916 when Lewis won a scholarship to University College. In 1917 he joined the army and received his officer's training at Keble College. During the war he was wounded during the Battle of Arras and was eventually discharged in December 1918. He went back to Oxford where he received three first class degrees in Honour Moderations (Greek and Latin Literature), Greats (Philosophy and Ancient History) and English.
In 1925 he became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford were he stayed as a tutor in English Language for 29 years. During his time in Oxford he was part of a group of literary fellows dubbed the Inklings. The group included J.R.R. Tolkien and they would meet at The Eagle And Child on St Giles. In 1950 he wrote the first of the Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe. Every year from then on he published another book in the Chronicles. Lewis died at his home "The Kilns" in Oxford, one week before his 65th birthday. His grave is in the yard of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford. | 
