What is the title of C.S. Lewis's 1955 memoir about grief?

C.S. Lewis’s 1955 memoir about grief is titled A Grief Observed. The book records his emotional and spiritual response after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman.

Lewis first published the work under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. The pseudonym allowed him to present the book as an anonymous account rather than immediately placing his famous name on a deeply personal record of bereavement.

The memoir is notably candid. Lewis questions, protests, and revisits his understanding of suffering and faith instead of offering a simple explanation of loss. Its directness distinguishes it from his more systematic works of Christian apologetics.

A Grief Observed is sometimes confused with The Problem of Pain, which Lewis published in 1940 as a theological discussion of suffering. The two books address related subjects, but only the 1955 memoir reflects Lewis’s personal grief after Davidman’s death.