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Born in Ireland in 1898, C S Leas educated at Malvern College for a year and then privately He gained a triple first at Oxford and was a Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College 1925-54 In 1954 he became Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Ca and popular lecturer and had a lasting influence on his pupils

C S Leas for many years an atheist, and described his conversion in Surprised by Joy: &039;In the Trinity Terave in, and admitted that God was Godperhaps the land&039; It was this experience that helped hiness to accept religion, and, as a Christian writer, gifted with an exceptionally brilliant and logical mind and a lucid, lively style, he ithout peer The Problem of Pain, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, The Four Loves and the posthumous Prayer: Letters to Malcol works He also wrote sohtful books for children and some science fiction, besides many works of literary criticism His works are known to millions of people all over the world in translation He died on 22nd November, 1963, at his home in Oxford