She finally found the answers to her quest in the Gospels and in Jesus Christ. Lewis, The Great Divorce, Miracles, and The Screwtape Letters. All my defenses - all the walls of arrogance and cocksureness and self-love behind which I had hid from God – went down momentarily – and God came in.” Embarking on a search for God she explored Reformed Judaism and read three books by C.S.
Later, she recalls her emotional state at this point: “or the first time my pride was forced to admit that I was not, after all, “the master of my fate”. But the situation only worsened when one night her husband phoned and told her he would not be coming home. Joy began searching for answers to address an unhappy life, to find fulfillment. Bill Gresham was an alcoholic and serial adulterer. She married Gresham in 1942 and gave birth to her first child, David, in 1944, and to Douglas, in 1945. She also met the writer, William Gresham, author of the novel, Nightmare Alley. There she served as a book reviewer, film critic and poetry editor. She joined the Communist Party and worked part-time with New Masses, a Communist newspaper. Lewis Institute, became disillusioned with both the Democratic and Republican parties. She became an atheist and according to the C.S. In 1940 she published her first novel, Anya. She resigned her teacher’s position and accepted the invitation. She published several poems while still an undergraduate and, after joining the workforce as a teacher, was asked to serve as reader and editor of the prestigious magazine, Poetry, in Chicago, IL. from (the City University of New York’s) Hunter College and an M.A. Raised in a middle class Jewish family she graduated high school at age fourteen, earned a B.A. Helen Joy Davidman was born in 1915 in the Bronx, New York. The summary of Helen Joy Davidman’s life below, unless cited otherwise, is based on information from the website of the C.S. A Grief Observed is Lewis’ account of that grief, of his struggle to cope with the heart-wrenching agony that mere reason and intellectualism were so ill-equipped to explain. However it was the illness and death of his wife, Helen Joy Davidman, that severely tested his faith, that forced an intensely personal introspection that blasted through layers of intellectual reasoning, and exposed a vulnerability and helplessness uncharacteristic in his writings. His reasoned and erudite defence of the Christian faith in books, essays, lectures and letters have persuaded and inspired many for decades. Lewis (1898 – 1963)Ĭlive Staples Lewis is one of the giants of twentieth century Christian apologetics.
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