Clive Staples Lewis, born in Belfast, Ireland, on November 29, 1898, was Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford, and later was Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University. He wrote many books in his lifetime, but The Chronicles of Narnia are his only works for children. The final title, The Last Battle, published in 1956, won the Carnegie Award, the highest honor for children's literature in the United Kingdom.