Not much new here, but I wanted to get more personal info about Mr. Lewis and from someone other than himself (see Surprised By Joy).

C.S. Lewis and his great friends have done an excellent job of keeping certain details of his life private, even decades after his death. Can't say that I blame him for his discretion (Louisa May Alcott, for example, entrusted her diaries and letters to a friend with the instruction they be destroyed upon her death. Well, yeah, you can read them all in various published books! Egads!).

Much of the material here (besides the personal accounts of the author) come from Lewis's letters (widely available) and there are many insights supposedly gleaned from Lewis's literary works (a practice Lewis himself disdained). I admit passing over many of these passages.

I'd like to read a couple of the other biographies out there. I've enjoyed spending this winter reading Mr. Lewis and would like to hear more about him from friends and from D. Gresham (his stepson) who lived with Mr. Lewis for a few years after the death of his mother. That would certainly be an interesting perspective.

Mr. Lewis was definitely an interesting and learned man who valued friendship, faith, good books, and good humor; this biography only increases the respect I have for him.