Editing C. S. Lewis (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Statue of C.S. Lewis, Belfast.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Ross Wilson (artist)|Ross Wilson]]'s statue of Professor Kirke (Digory) in front of the wardrobe from ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' in East Belfast]]

Lewis continues to attract a wide readership. In 2008, ''[[The Times]]'' ranked him eleventh on their list of "the 50 greatest British writers since 1945".<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece |title=The 50 greatest British writers since 1945 |date=5 January 2008 |work=The Times |access-date=1 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425050801/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3127837.ece |archive-date=25 April 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Readers of his fiction are often unaware of what Lewis considered the Christian themes of his works. His Christian apologetics are read and quoted by members of many [[Christian denomination]]s.{{sfn|Pratt|1998}} In 2013, on the 50th anniversary of his death, Lewis joined some of Britain's greatest writers recognized at [[Poets' Corner]], [[Westminster Abbey]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9694561/CS-Lewis-Chronicles-of-Narnia-author-honoured-in-Poets-corner.html |title=CS<!--sic--> Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia author, honoured in Poets' corner |last=Peterkin |first=Tom |date=22 November 2012 |work=The Telegraph |access-date=24 February 2013 |archive-date=5 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205173259/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9694561/CS-Lewis-Chronicles-of-Narnia-author-honoured-in-Poets-corner.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The dedication service, at noon on 22 November 2013, included a reading from ''[[The Last Battle]]'' by [[Douglas Gresham]], younger stepson of Lewis. Flowers were laid by [[Walter Hooper]], trustee and literary advisor to the Lewis Estate. An address was delivered by former Archbishop of Canterbury [[Rowan Williams]].<ref name="memorial booklet">{{Cite book |title=A service to dedicate a memorial to C. S. Lewis, writer, scholar, apologist |publisher=Westminster Abbey |year=2013}}</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2016}} The floor stone inscription is a quotation from an address by Lewis:

{{blockquote|I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else.<ref name="memorial booklet" />}}

Lewis has been the subject of several biographies, a few of which were written by close friends, such as [[Roger Lancelyn Green]] and George Sayer.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QC3PMUQZrKsC |title=C.S. Lewis: A Biography |last1=Green |first1=Roger Lancelyn |last2=Hooper |first2=Walter |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace |isbn=978-0-15-623205-0 |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529102149/https://books.google.com/books?id=QC3PMUQZrKsC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uV7FwAEACAAJ&q=george+sayer+cs+lewis |title=Jack: A Life of C. S. Lewis |last=Sayer |first=George |date=2005 |publisher=Crossway Books |isbn=978-1-58134-739-5 |access-date=9 November 2020 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529102149/https://books.google.com/books?id=uV7FwAEACAAJ&q=george+sayer+cs+lewis |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1985, the screenplay ''[[Shadowlands (TV Movie)|Shadowlands]]'' by [[William Nicholson (writer)|William Nicholson]] dramatized Lewis's life and relationship with Joy Davidman Gresham.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0jpbAAAACAAJ&q=shadowlands |title=Through the Shadowlands: The Love Story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman |last=Sibley |first=Brian |date=2005 |publisher=Revell |isbn=978-0-8007-3070-3 |access-date=9 November 2020 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529102150/https://books.google.com/books?id=0jpbAAAACAAJ&q=shadowlands |url-status=live }}</ref> It was aired on British television starring [[Joss Ackland]] and [[Claire Bloom]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Television in 1986 {{!}} BAFTA Awards |url=http://awards.bafta.org/award/1986/television/orig |website=awards.bafta.org |access-date=6 February 2022 |quote=Actress: Claire Bloom Shadowlands ... Single Drama: Shadowlands}}</ref> This was also staged as a theatre play starring [[Nigel Hawthorne]] in 1989<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/12/theater/review-theater-shadowlands-cs-lewis-and-his-life-s-love.html |title=Review/Theater; 'Shadowlands,' C.S. Lewis and His Life's Love |last=Rich |first=Frank |date=12 November 1990 |work=The New York Times |access-date=3 December 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=3 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191203183602/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/12/theater/review-theater-shadowlands-cs-lewis-and-his-life-s-love.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and made into the 1993 feature film ''[[Shadowlands (1993 film)|Shadowlands]]'' starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] and [[Debra Winger]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ebert |first1=Roger |title=Shadowlands movie review |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/shadowlands-1994 |website=RogerEbert.com |access-date=6 February 2022 }}</ref>

Many books have been inspired by Lewis, including ''[[A Severe Mercy]]'' by his correspondent and friend [[Sheldon Vanauken]]. ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' has been particularly influential. Modern children's literature has been more or less influenced by Lewis's series, such as [[Daniel Handler]]'s ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', [[Eoin Colfer]]'s ''[[Artemis Fowl (series)|Artemis Fowl]]'', [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'', and [[J. K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter]]''.{{sfn|Hilliard|2005|pp=}} Pullman is an [[atheism|atheist]] and is known to be sharply critical of C. S. Lewis's work,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.reason.com/news/show/124392.html |title=A Secular Fantasy&nbsp;– The flawed but fascinating fiction of Philip Pullman |last=Young |first=Cathy |date=March 2008 |website=Reason |publisher=Reason Foundation |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090903105700/http://reason.com/news/show/124392.html |archive-date=3 September 2009 |access-date=8 April 2009}}</ref> accusing Lewis of featuring religious propaganda, misogyny, racism, and emotional sadism in his books.{{sfn|BBC News|2005|p=}} However, he has also modestly praised ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' for being a "more serious" work of literature in comparison with Tolkien's "trivial" ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vineyard |first1=Jennifer |title='His Dark Materials' Writer Philip Pullman Takes 'Narnia,' 'Lord Of The Rings' To Task |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1573211/his-dark-materials-writer-philip-pullman-takes-narnia-lord-of-the-rings-to-task/ |access-date=3 June 2020 |work=MTV News |date=31 October 2007 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603053455/http://www.mtv.com/news/1573211/his-dark-materials-writer-philip-pullman-takes-narnia-lord-of-the-rings-to-task/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Authors of adult fantasy literature such as [[Tim Powers]] have also testified to being influenced by Lewis's work.{{sfn|Edwards|2007|pp=305–307}}

Most of Lewis's posthumous work has been edited by his literary executor [[Walter Hooper]]. [[Kathryn Lindskoog]], an independent Lewis scholar, argued that Hooper's scholarship is not reliable and that he has made false statements and attributed forged works to Lewis.{{sfn|Lindskoog|2001}} Lewis's stepson, [[Douglas Gresham]], denies the forgery claims, saying that "[t]he whole controversy thing was engineered for very personal reasons&nbsp;... Her fanciful theories have been pretty thoroughly discredited."{{sfn|Gresham|2007}}

A bronze statue of Lewis's character Digory from ''[[The Magician's Nephew]]'' stands in Belfast's [[Holywood, County Down|Holywood]] Arches in front of the Holywood Road Library.{{sfn|BBC News|2004}}

Several C. S. Lewis Societies exist around the world, including one which was founded in Oxford in 1982. The C.S. Lewis Society at the University of Oxford meets at [[Pusey House, Oxford|Pusey House]] during term time to discuss papers on the life and works of Lewis and the other Inklings, and generally appreciate all things Lewisian.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://lewisinoxford.googlepages.com |title=Oxford University C. S. Lewis Society |publisher=lewisinoxford.googlepages.com |access-date=29 May 2021 |archive-date=17 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617074528/http://lewisinoxford.googlepages.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Live-action film adaptations have been made of three of ''The Chronicles of Narnia: [[The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe|The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' (2005), ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian|Prince Caspian]]'' (2008) and ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader|The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'' (2010).

Lewis is featured as a main character in ''[[The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica]]'' series by [[James A. Owen]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4L2Eo7hGjgC&q=here+there+be+dragons,+owen |title=Here There Be Dragons |last=Owen |first=James |date=2006 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781416951377 |page=322 |access-date=27 May 2019 |archive-date=29 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529102150/https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4L2Eo7hGjgC&q=here+there+be+dragons%2C+owen |url-status=live }}</ref> He is one of two characters in [[Mark St. Germain]]'s 2009 play ''Freud's Last Session'', which imagines a meeting between Lewis, aged 40, and [[Sigmund Freud]], aged 83, at Freud's house in Hampstead, London, in 1939, as the Second World War is about to break out.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tu95z2HrufQC |title=Freud's Last Session |last=Germain |first=Mark St |date=2010 |publisher=Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |isbn=978-0-8222-2493-8 |access-date=5 September 2020 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417210503/https://books.google.com/books?id=tu95z2HrufQC |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023, [[Freud's Last Session]] was released as a movie starring [[Anthony Hopkins]] as Freud and [[Matthew Goode]] as Lewis. The movie had additional characters as well, including [[Anna Freud]], played by [[Liv Lisa Fries]].

In 2021, ''[[The Most Reluctant Convert]]'', a [[biographical drama]] about Lewis's life and conversion, was released.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2021/11/c-s-lewis-most-reluctant-convert-box-office-1234867567/|title=C.S. Lewis Biopic 'The Most Reluctant Convert' Sees $1.2M+ Box Office For One Night Event, Adds Shows|last=Goldsmith|first=Jill|date=4 November 2021|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|access-date=26 May 2022}}</ref>

The [[CS Lewis Nature Reserve]], on ground owned by Lewis, lies behind his house, The Kilns.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dickieson |first=Brenton |date=6 November 2018 |title=An Afternoon on C.S. Lewis' Headington Hill – A Pilgrim in Narnia |url=https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2018/11/06/an-afternoon-on-headington-hill/ |access-date=24 January 2025 |website=apilgriminnarnia.com }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=C.S. Lewis Oxford Audio Tour Guide |url=https://cslewistour.uk/oxford/ |access-date=24 January 2025 |website=C.S. Lewis Tour Guide }}</ref> There is public access.<ref>{{cite web |title=CS Lewis Nature Reserve |url=https://www.bbowt.org.uk/nature-reserves/cs-lewis-nature-reserve |access-date=7 August 2024 |website=www.bbowt.org.uk }}</ref>
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