Tag: Biography
Jack Lewis: This is Your Life–Happy 114th Birthday!
November 29th, 2012
My annual birthday tribute to Jack. On the Occasion of the 114th Anniversary of C. S. Lewis’s Birth (November 29, 1898-November 22, 1963) Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Professor Emeritus of English and Africana Studies Bowling Green State University Renowned author and critic C. S. “Jack” Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland nearl 114 years [...]
A Way into Till We Have Faces
January 27th, 2010
Tlll We Have Faces––heavily motivated by Lewis’s longtime interest in the cupid/psyche myth, but now influenced by and filtered through his courtship and marriage to Joy Davidman and mature Christian faith, and interwoven with several complementary writing projects of the roughly same period (Surprised by Joy; The Four Loves; An Experiment in Criticism)––represents a nuanced [...]
New C S Lewis Manuscript?
July 9th, 2009
When J.R.R. met C.S. By Jeff Salamon, Austin American-Statesman Books Editor There probably isn’t a movie in it, but even so this is pretty cool: Texas State University communications professor Steven Beebe discovered an unpublished manuscript fragment by C. S. Lewis, best known as the author of ‘The Narnia Chronicles.’ Better still, the fragment was [...]
What You're Missing . . .
April 19th, 2009
If you’re not following CSLEWISNEWS on Twitter (subscribe now), today’s entry: A. N. Wilson’s return to faith after 20 yrs. in the atheist wilderness after writing his bio of CSLewis: http://tinyurl.com/wilson-CSL
Michael Ward's NARNIA CODE
April 10th, 2009
The documentary based upon Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia debuts in Britain on BBC1, Thursday 16th April 2009 at 10.35 pm. Here is the trailer:
Jack the Counselor
January 28th, 2009
Ask any ten avid readers of C. S. Lewis to describe his vocation and I suspect 9 out of 10 will use one of the following terms: Christian apologist, fantasy/sf writer, children’s author, literary critic, Oxford don—a handful, maybe even “poet.” Few, I reckon, would think to refer to Jack, as he invited friends to [...]
A Christmas Gift Guide for Those Who Love Jack
December 14th, 2008
Happy Birthday, Clive! 112 Years Young!
November 29th, 2008
My annual birthday tribute to Jack. On the Occasion of the 112th Anniversary of C. S. Lewis’s Birth (November 29, 1898-November 22, 1963) Dr. Bruce L. Edwards Professor of English and Africana Studies Bowling Green State University Renowned author and critic C. S. “Jack” Lewis was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland 112 years ago today. [...]
The Company They Keep–now in paperback
November 10th, 2008
Thinking Christianly Re: Auto/biography
July 5th, 2008
Copyright 2008 by Bruce L. Edwards. (Click here for Permissions information) The genres of biography and autobiography refer, literally, to writing (“graphing”) a life (“bio”), one’s own or someone else’s. In the West, they are regarded as fact-driven works created to capture and preserve the life—and usually the times—of notable individuals. Biographies are presumed to [...]
