"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
A brilliant man, C.S. Lewis was born on November 29, 1898. He was nicknamed Jack, and that's the name that everyone close to him used. He was schooled in "extensive literary philosophical studies" in Latin, Greek, French, and Italian. He attended the University College, Oxford, twice, with his commission and service as a British officer in between. His stint in the military lasted two years. He was always actively writing, first in school magazines, then into the ever-greater works he became known for. He was raised a Christian but fell away from that into atheism when he was about thirteen to fifteen years old (1911-1913).
Some of his best known works: The Chronicales of Narnia, Mere Christianity, Surprised by Joy, The Space Trilogy, A Grief Observed, The Screwtape Letters, and Reflections on the Psalms.
Sources:
http://cslewis.drzeus.net/bio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surprised_by_Joy
(Will add others I looked over)