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Clive Staples Lewis - - C.S. Lewis
Online Source 1: TechLand, Time.com site, 2010, Web. 27 April 2010 []
 * 1) Leading author figure at English faculty in Oxford University
 * 2) Works have translated to over 30 different languages
 * 3) Friends with Philip Pullman (The Golden Compass)
 * 4) The Golden Compass focues on Pullman's Atheism
 * 5) Wrote the Chronicles while being converted
 * 6) Chronicles of Narnia sold on stage, TV, radio and movies
 * 7) Wife = American writer, Joy Gresham
 * 8) Died from Kidney Failure
 * 9) Lived in Ireland
 * 10) Episcopalian (Church of England w/o swearing loyalty to the british monarch)
 * 11) authoritized Mere Christianity
 * 12) wrote the Allegory of Love
 * 13) wrote the Screwtape Letters
 * 14) wrote The Space Trilogy
 * 15) wrote Till We Have Faces
 * 16) wrote Surprised by Joy: The Shape of Mt Early Life
 * 1) Narnia is controvesial
 * 2) Some think Tolkiens writing is "more manly"
 * 3) Lewis & Tolkien friends
 * 4) L&T drank together
 * 5) L&T wrote together
 * 6) L&T bounced ideas off of each other
 * 7) L&T desribed as fathers of modern fantasy
 * 8) L&T the original nerd couple
 * 9) Partied hard
 * 10) Described as the Dreamer
 * 11) Barely keep books straigh, keeping them in narnia, not narnia.1
 * 12) Wrote Chronicles of Narnia in little more than 2 years
 * 13) Random writer, gabbed what was around him, and put it in
 * 14) Tolkien hated Narnia books
 * 15) Made modern fantasy from scratch
 * 16) Narnia books shorter than tolkiens
 * 17) The Worm Ourobouros could have influenced lewis's writings, through Tolkien, or directly
 * 18) Some think Tolkien's writing are far better then Lewis's
 * 19) Not many Lewis writings (other than novels)
 * 20) Some think the christian angle is over-focused

Online Source 2: U.S. News and World Report, U.S. News, 2010, Web. 28 April 2010 []
 * 1) Devoloped a mother-son relation with Janie King Moore (Minto)
 * 2) War Veteran
 * 3) Had Oxford degree in, Philosophy
 * 4) Had degree in Classics
 * 5) Had an Oxford degree in English
 * 6) Some wonder how such a complex man wrote a childrens classic
 * 7) Colin Duriez's //The C. S. Lewis Chronicles,// David Downing's //Into the Wardrobe: C. S. Lewis and the Narnia Chronicles// questions this (number 6)
 * 8) Alan Jacobs's //The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis// questioned this (number 6)
 * 9) Had influences in life (Inklings)
 * 10) Connections in all his literary works
 * 11) Had improbable connections in theological influences
 * 12) Created art
 * 13) Had influences inside his art
 * 14) Lewis self-acknowledged lack of rapport with children
 * 15) Never liked childrens books
 * 16) Indepent in judging literature
 * 17) Liked ethical novels
 * 18) In his day ethnical novels were not popular, oppisite of popular
 * 19) Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien to continue writing //The Hobbit//
 * 20) L wrote Narnia to try to have children not make the same mistakes he did as a kid

Print Source 1: NYP Holdings Inc., New York Times, 2010, Web. 28 April 2010 []
 * 1) War movies usualy dont sell, narnia war movies do
 * 2) War movies usually anti-war, narnia (prince caspign) arnt
 * 3) Many magical being are in narnia
 * 4) Many magical, and none magical being are in the chronicles of Narnia
 * 5) Narnia is full of Medival events
 * 6) Narnia contains many councils
 * 7) Narnia has many Knights
 * 8) The battle starts with a Lions Roar
 * 9) "Caspian" is centered on the theme of Mars, god of war, and theres a war
 * 10) Narnia books based on "spirit symbols of permentent value" Caspin is the Mars book
 * 11) Caspian celebrates war
 * 12) Celebrates peace in Caspian, by showing lots of green, trees
 * 13) "Mars Silvanus" god of woods and forests, see 12
 * 14) WWI Veteran
 * 15) Was not a Pacifist
 * 16) Believed in the 'just war'
 * 17) Thought war was terrible, but sometimes neccassary
 * 18) Thought a real warrior is brave but self-restrained
 * 19) Lewis said that Caspian (book) showed "the necessity of chivalry
 * 20) Michael Ward wrote //Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis//

Print Source 2: Hunter, Ian. "C. S. Lewis and Anglicanism." //Catholic Insight// Dec. 2006: 8. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Web. 29 Apr. 2010 []
 * 1) 20th century writer
 * 2) Said to be most influencial at his time
 * 3) Christian apologist in the 20th century
 * 4) Many convers to the Roman Catholic Church have been influenced by C.S. Lewis's writings
 * 5) "But guess who turns up most often? C.S. Lewis!"
 * 6) Never converted to Rome, lifelong Anglican
 * 7) People are baffled why he convinced so many to goin Roman church, but never joined himself
 * 8) Other writers of that time converted to Roman church, such as G.K. Chesterton, Ronald Knox, Evelyn Waugh, and J.R.R. Tolkien
 * 9) Many dont agree with Pearce's idea after his research that he stuck with the ways he grew up with
 * 10) Some think that it is because in L's time the Anglican church was still considered "one holy, catholic and apostolic chuch"
 * 11) L caused the Anglican chuch to apoligize itself into near bankruptcy
 * 12) L belongedto a pretty much different church altogether
 * 13) Some believe today that : would of converted
 * 14) Church of Egland called a ghost of its former self
 * 15) Today man think, some that knew him and were lifelong friends, think hed surely be Roman Catholic
 * 16) The absolute answer will never be known, unless time travel, or spirit talking is invnted
 * 17) Some think L couldnt shake his virulently anti-Catholic Belfast childhood
 * 18) L wasnt alive to see the church apologize for its gay bishop
 * 19) L's influence peaked in the 1940's, '50's and early '60's
 * 20) L influenced many to convr to Roman Church