C.S. Lewis. Surprised By Joy:  C.S. Lewis’s account of his early years, up to the time of his conversion from atheism to Christianity. Lewis was born in Belfast in 1898. After his mother’s death from cancer, he was sent to a series of boarding schools, where, by age sixteen, he had become a highly developed intellect – and a confirmed atheist. After the Great War, in which he was seriously wounded, he graduated from Oxford and stayed on at the University as a Fellow of Magdalen College. Many things conspired to undermine Lewis’s disbelief, including the arguments of colleagues like Hugo Dyson and J.R.R. Tolkien – and his own insatiable longing for supersubstantial Joy. The final surrender came “in Trinity Term of 1929,” writes Lewis, when “I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed.” A magnificent study in the psychology of con­version. And a remarkable spiritual self-portrait by one of the greatest men of our time.