She died just a few years later, in 1960, and Lewis followed her in 1963. Later in life, Lewis married Joy Davidman Gresham, an American woman with whom he had corresponded. In 1954, Lewis became chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College of Cambridge University. During World War II, he delivered a series of radio addresses that became the basis for his famous work of apologetics, Mere Christianity. Though Lewis had been a staunch atheist since his teen years, he became a Christian in 1931 and remained a committed member of the Church of England for the rest of his life. They are transported to a way station between worlds, magical woods dotted with ponds, each a doorway to. Andrew is curious about these worlds, but in his cowardice to go himself, tricks Polly and Digory into grabbing the rings. From 1925–1954, he taught English literature in Oxford’s Magdalen College. A magician, Andrew has a set of yellow and green rings which will transport, when touched, a person to another world. He was injured in 1918 and thereafter returned to Oxford, where he studied classics, philosophy, and English literature. Lewis entered Oxford University in 1916, but he was soon sent to France to fight in World War I. He loved spending time in his father’s massive library, and he lost his mother to cancer around the age of 10. Growing up, Clive-who adopted the nickname “Jack” as a young boy-and his brother Warren lived in a house called Little Lea in East Belfast. Lewis was born in Northern Ireland to Albert James Lewis, a solicitor, and Flora Lewis, the daughter of a Church of Ireland clergyman.
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