Includes bibliographical references and index.

Antecedents -- Early Days, 1898-1905 -- Little Lea, 1905-1908 -- Schools, 1908-1914 -- The Great Knock, 1914-1917 -- The Angel of Pain, 1917-1918 -- Undergraduate, 1919-1922 -- Heavy Lewis, 1922-1925 -- Redemption by Parricide, 1925-1929 -- Mythopoeia, 1929-1931 -- Regress, 1931-1936 -- The Inklings, 1936-1939 -- Screwtape, 1939-1942 -- Separations, 1942-1945 -- Narnia, 1945-1951 -- The Silver Chair, 1951-1952 -- Smoke on the Mountain, 1954-1957 -- Marriage, 1957-1959 -- Men Must Endure, 1959-1960 -- Last Years, 1960-1963 -- Further Up and Further in.

"An accomplished biography...Wilson is a very clever, fluent, and engaging writer, with many of the traits that he attributes to his subject: a 'constantly intelligent conversational quality,' 'a flair for the quick, sharp character sketch, and a 'bedrock of common sense.'" THE NEW REPUBLIC A.N. Wilson shows in this brilliant new biography, that C.S. Lewis, the man, was every bit as multifaceted as C.S. Lewis the writer. Gregerious friend, bullying debater, heavy drinker, and smoker. A man whose relationships with women boggled even those closest to him. C.s. Lewis was all of these things, and A.N. Wilson has succeeded, as no previous biographer has done, in bringing this generous, passionate, opinionated, deeply troubled, and marvelously gifted man to life.