Exploding Lewis Myths with Harry Lee Poe (Becoming C.S. Lewis)

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Hal Poe joins the show to discuss his comprehensive and very readable three-volume C.S. Lewis biography, Becoming C.S. Lewis, which you can find here. He talks about how he became interested in C.S. Lewis, the process of writing the biography, and a few of the assumptions about C.S. Lewis he's disproven.

Among other things, we discuss:

• The importance of Lewis' childhood in forming his tastes
• The Janie Moore affair (or lack thereof?)
• Biography versus memoir
• Lewis' love of allegory and his Allegory of Love
• Lewis' likely influence on Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
• Barfield: The Inkling Who Wasn't
• Some objections to the Planet Narnia thesis
• C.S. Lewis as Mrs. Moore's house elf
• Lewis' writing speed
• Apologetics after Lewis

We hope you enjoy it!  Thanks again to Hal Poe for taking the time to discuss this with us--and thanks to Andrew Lazo for introducing us!