C.S. Lewis was first known to me through his children's books on Narnia. I've since become introduced to him as a Christian philosopher. As a biblical theologian, Lewis, by his own admission, was an amateur. As a thinker, he has few rivals.

All biographies or books on history will be necessarily limited to the knowledge, perspective, and biases of the author. George Sayer was a close personal friend of Lewis. While his observations and comments on Lewis and his friends/family are fascinating, it is difficult to know how much is colored by his relationship with Lewis.

My favorite part of the book was Sayer's analysis of Lewis' writings. It whet my appetite for reading some of Lewis' works that I've yet to read. My rating is 4 *s. I took off a star because, as a biography, it is not terribly interesting to any who were not previously interested in Lewis.