C.S. (real name is Clive Staples) Lewis was born into a bookish family of Protestants in Belfast, Ireland. Eclectic in their reading tastes, they purchased and read "endless" books. They were a very devote Christian family, but the death of Mrs. Lewis in 1908 convinced C.S. Lewis that the God he encountered in the Bible his mother gave him was, if not cruel, at least a vague abstraction. By 1911 or 1912, with the additional influence of a spiritually unorthodox boarding