C. S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis was a writer known to his friends the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond.

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Lewis belonged to a group called the Inklings, as did his friend John. They convened at a pub called The Eagle and Child. He read a fantasy story inspired by the Doctor's adventures which had fictional versions of Amy and Rory as its heroes, alongside "the Professor". The Doctor suggested that the story could include a wardrobe. (DWM: The Professor, the Queen and the Bookshop)

Behind the scenes
The story in which he appears implies that C.S. Lewis rewrote his tale about a bookshop into the Narnia books The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Magician's Nephew.

C.S. Lewis wrote the Narnia books for children, also wrote a "space fiction" trilogy, which, like early Doctor Who involved ordinary people visiting alien planets. Many commenters have compared the TARDIS to the magical wardrobe in Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the first-written of the Narnia books.

He died on the same day as the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, 22 November 1963, which was also coincidentally the day before the very first broadcast of Doctor Who.