According to the introduction, this biography was devised specifically as a chronicle of the life of the man who chronicled Narnia. White acknowledges that Lewis spent all his life as an Oxford don teaching and studying English language and literature, and that the later parts of his life were devoted to proselytising a rather firebrand version of Christianity, but he sees Lewis primarily as a writer of best-selling fiction, and particularly the Narnia series. When first presented, this approach looked like an exceedingly good idea to me, but as the narrative progressed its major drawbacks became painfully obvious. Lewis didn't write the Narnia books until ...  Read the complete review