This Week in Christian History: Billy Sunday, CS Lewis, Mayflower
C.S. Lewis Dies - November 22, 1963
This week marks the anniversary of the death of renowned Christian author, intellectual, and apologist Clive Staples Lewis, or C.S. Lewis for short.
A veteran of the First World War, Lewis was a prolific writer whose notable fiction and nonfiction works include The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters.
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Lewis' death came about an hour before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and on the same day of Aldous Huxley.
In a 2013 interview with the UK Independent, Lewis' stepson Doug Gresham recounted that he "didn't think much about the timing."
"I didn't intellectualise the whole thing. It was a situation of being numb and carrying on, irrespective of what was going on in the wider world," recalled Gresham.
"Because my world had suddenly become very small and I ceased to be interested in anything else. Grief is a selfish thing – it shuts out everything except your own pain."
