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Jul 1, 2009 · C. S. Lewis was perhaps the best known Christian writer of the 20th century. You would be hard pressed to believe this love story. The journey that led Joy Davidman (a Jewish, communist, Christian) to become the wife of the confirmed bachelor, Christian, academician C. S Lewis is well worth the read.
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Jun 19, 2009 · Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman Hardcover – June 19, 2009. The untold story of the woman who married C. S. Lewis and inspired the movieShadowlands When Joy Davidman died of cancer in 1960, C. S. Lewis, her husband of only four years, wrote one of the great twentieth-century classics about loss and grief.
Apr 16, 2021 · D ouglas Gresham is the last person living who knew C. S. Lewis well. The son of Joy Davidman, Douglas watched his mother and “Jack” fall in love and marry. He wept with his stepfather when Joy died of cancer, and led the mourners behind the casket when husband followed wife to the graveyard. In a recent interview, Douglas told me that many ...
Joy Davidman (born Helen Joy Davidman; 18 April 1915 – 13 July 1960) was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature in 1935. For her book of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1938 and the ...
Feb 12, 2024 · Lewis and Davidman married relatively late in life, and after Davidman had already been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Their relationship is chronicled in the acclaimed film, “Shadowlands.” The epitaph, composed in four couplets, testifies to how a person is indeed a “whole world…Reflected in a single mind.”
Mar 30, 2020 · Although not as well-known as her husband, “Helen Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis was a fiery, genius American award-winning poet and novelist,” Callahan Henry said. “She was also a former Jew ...
