Joel Heck's Lewis Site

My article for The Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2012, "C. S. Lewis and the Westcott House Governing Board":

My review of Alister McGrath's excellent new biography of Lewis appears below. I recommend it highly. It has new insights in every chapter and on almost every page.

To read a summary of the life of C. S. Lewis, rather than a lengthy biography, download the "Life of Lewis in seven pages," below. 

"The Middle War Years in the Writings  of C. S. Lewis: 1942 and 1943," published in CSL: The  Bulletin of The New York C. S. Lewis Society (Mar/Apr 2012) Vol. 43, No. 2, pages 1-13.

An article about what Lewis wrote in 1950: "The Year of Narnia: 1950." The Chronicle of the Oxford University C. S. Lewis Society. Vol. 7, Issue 2,  April 2010.

 "Warren Hamilton Lewis: His Brother's Brother" was published in October 2009 by The Chronicle of the Oxford University C. S. Lewis Society.

"JBS: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane" was published in Nov/Dec 2007 by CSL: The Bulletin of The New York C.S. Lewis Society. 

This article, about Lewis's essay "Learning in War-Time," was published on the HarperCollins website in 2008: 

My article on C.E.M. Joad has been published by Sehnsucht (below), and my article on Lewis' most prolific year of writing, 1945, was published in 2010 by CSL. CSL will also publish my article on Lewis' second most prolific year of writing, 1944.

My article, "The Personal Heresy: Scholars Can Be Gentlemen," appeared in the November/December 2008 issue of CSL: The Bulletin of The New York C.S. Lewis Society.

See my chapter (below) on Mere Christianity in the four-volume series of books on Lewis, edited by Bruce Edwards and published in 2007 by Praeger Publishers, and entitled C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy. My chapter in Volume 3 (Chapter 3, pages 51-73) is entitled "Mere Christianity: Uncommon Truth in Common Language."