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**The first full biography of Joy Davidman brings her out from C. S. Lewis's shadow, where she has long been hidden, to reveal a powerful writer and thinker.** Joy Davidman is known, if she is known at all, as the wife of C. S. Lewis. Their marriage was immortalized in the film __Shadowlands__ and Lewis's memoir, __A Grief Observed__. Now, through extraordinary new documents as well as years of research and interviews, Abigail Santamaria brings Joy Davidman Gresham Lewis to the page in the fullness and depth she deserves. A poet and radical, Davidman was a frequent contributor to the communist vehicle __New Masses__ and an active member of New York literary circles in the 1930s and 40s. Born Jewish in the Bronx, she was an atheist, then a practitioner of Dianetics; she converted to Christianity after experiencing a moment of transcendent grace. A mother, a novelist, a vibrant and difficult and intelligent woman, she set off for England in 1952, determined...

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Author

Abigail Santamaria

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780547843704

Category

religious

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Judaism

Rating

4.04 / 5 (188 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14