C.S. Lewis's Birthday

Writer of some of the most enjoyable reads I've had in life. His scholarly analyses are like sweet old wine--One reads them over and over, relishing their wit and many felicities. His deliberate fiction (with always the exception of the Screwtape Letters, which is above praise)--meh. And so also his friend J.R.R. Tolkien thought. (Of the Chronicles of Narnia): Creaky plot, dull characters, But I will never in this life get enough of Lewis's ruminations on the Roman de la Rose.