C. S. Lewis
Before there was a wardrobe that opened into another world, there was a quiet boy in Belfast who filled his notebooks with imaginary creatures and fantastical realms. C. S. Lewis—known to friends as Jack—never outgrew the wonder of childhood storytelling. Instead, he transformed it into one of the most beloved and enduring fantasy worlds in literature: Narnia. Born in 1898 in Northern Ireland, Lewis came of age in a world shadowed by war and personal loss. His mother died when he was just nine, and by his late teens he was serving in the trenches of World War I. These early experiences—both of grief and of survival—left deep marks on his…