Jack – A Life of C.S. Lewis

“As I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called ‘Tollers’ sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade. “

” How did you get on?”, he asked.

” I think rather well. I think he will be a most interesting tutor to have.”

” Interesting? Yes, he’s certainly that,” said the man, who I later learned was J.R.R. Tolkien.

” You’ll never get to the bottom of him.”

Author George Sayer will bring you closer to the real C.S. Lewis in Jack. Drawing from a variety of sources, including the million-word diary of Lewis’s brother and from twenty-nine years of close friendship with this century’s most influential Christian apologist, Sayer gives a warm and enlightening insider’s look at the man whom God used to bring many back to the faith.

Offering never-read-before glimpses into Lewis’s extraordinary relationships and experience, “Jack details the great scholar’s life at the Kilns; days at Magdalen College; meetings with the Inklings; marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham, and the creative process that produced such world-famous works as the classic Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters.

Mythlore (https://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore.htm) says this book is ” likely to become the definitive biography” of C.S. Lewis. It is that and more–an intimate account of a gifted literary scholar and best-selling author, the man who has helped generations hear and understand the heart of Christianity as never before.