He was particularly admired for his Screwtape Letters, his war-years broadcast, Mere Christianity, and for his imaginative, fictional writings (especially, The Chronicles of Narnia, published throughout the 1950s). īy that time, Lewis had already been famous for two decades, as a “novelist, essayist, theologian,” as The Christian Century summed him up, curiously leaving out something he considered essential to his intellectual identity. In the early 1960s the editors of the magazine, The Christian Century, sent a question to one hundred of the most famous literary and intellectual personalities of the day: “What books did most to shape your vocational attitude and your philosophy of life?” The editors were trying to map the books that had shaped the minds of their generation.
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