George Sayer, author of Jack & recorder of the 1952 home-made tapes of Tolkien reading from The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings, died recently in Malvern, Worcs.
As I walked away from New Buildings, I found the man that Lewis had called “Tollers” sitting on one of the stone steps in front of the arcade.
“How did you get on?” he asked.
“I think rather well. I think he will be a most interesting tutor to have.”
“Interesting? Yes, he’s certainly that,” said the man, who I later learned was J.R.R. Tolkien. “You’ll never get to the bottom of him.”
Author George Sayer will bring you closer to the real C.S. Lewis in Jack. Drawing from a variety of sources, including the million-word diary of Lewis’s brother and from twenty-nine years of close friendship with this century’s most influential Christian apologist, Sayer gives a warm and enlightening insider’s look at the man whom God used to bring many back to the faith.
Offering never-read-before glimpses into Lewis’s extraordinary relationships and experience, Jack details the great scholar’s life at the Kilns; days at Magdalen College; meetings with the Inklings; marriage to Joy Davidman Gresham, and the creative process that produced such world-famous works as the classic Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and The Screwtape Letters.
Mythlore says this book is “likely to become the definitive biography” of C.S. Lewis. It is that and more–an intimate account of a gifted literary scholar and best-selling author, the man who has helped generations hear and understand the heart of Christianity as never before.