C. S. Lewis: A Biography by Wayne Martindale

C. S. Lewis: A Biography

C. S. Lewis: A Biography
by A. N. Wilson
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.
334 pages, $22.50 (hardcover)

reviewed by Wayne Martindale

I confess. I was convinced I wouldn’t like Wilson’s book before I ever read it.

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Wayne Martindale is a professor of English at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

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