<P> Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on 29 November 1898 . His father was Albert James Lewis (1863--1929), a solicitor whose father Richard had come to Ireland from Wales during the mid-19th century . His mother was Florence Augusta Lewis, née Hamilton (1862--1908), known as Flora, the daughter of a Church of Ireland priest, and great grand - daughter of both Bishop Hugh Hamilton and John Staples . He had an elder brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis . </P> <P> When he was four, his dog Jacksie was killed by a car, and he announced that his name was now Jacksie . At first, he would answer to no other name, but later accepted Jack, the name by which he was known to friends and family for the rest of his life . When he was seven, his family moved into "Little Lea", the family home of his childhood, in the Strandtown area of East Belfast . </P> <P> As a boy, Lewis was fascinated with anthropomorphic animals; he fell in love with Beatrix Potter's stories and often wrote and illustrated his own animal stories . He and his brother Warnie created the world of Boxen, inhabited and run by animals . Lewis loved to read; his father's house was filled with books, and he felt that finding a book to read was as easy as walking into a field and "finding a new blade of grass". </P> <P> The New House is almost a major character in my story . I am the product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstair indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles . Also, of endless books . </P>

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