![]() ![]() Lewis's son, Douglas Gresham, beside a sculpture of Aslan in Belfast's "CS Lewis Square." / Charles McQuillan/Getty Images The story was floundering until Lewis invented Aslan the lion.Ĭ.S. Lewis started in 1939 and finished in 1949. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe took 10 years to write. This situation seems to be the inspiration for the four children-Susan, Peter, Edmund, and Lucy-being sent to live with the old Professor in the book. In 1939, three girls, Margaret, Mary, and Katherine, were evacuated from London because of anticipated bombings and sent to live with Lewis in the countryside for a short time. The book was also inspired by three girls who lived with Lewis during World War II. The story was inspired by an image of a faun.įrom age 16 onward, Lewis often found himself imagining “a Faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood.” According to his short essay It All Began With A Picture, the image continued to come to him until, at age 40, he said to himself, “Let's try to make a story about it.” 2. Here are some things you may not know about this long-lived children’s classic. ![]() Little did he know that his novel would become a best seller, lead to six sequels, and still be widely read decades later. ![]() Lewis struggled and fought to complete The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. In the 1940s, Oxford University professor C.S. ![]()
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