What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1956 memoir about grief?

A Grief Observed was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1956 memoir about grief.

Lewis published A Grief Observed after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from cancer in 1960? Actually, the book was first published in 1961, under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk, following Davidman’s death in 1960.

The short work records Lewis’s anger, doubt, loneliness, and changing understanding of faith during bereavement. Its direct style differs from the structured apologetics of Mere Christianity and the autobiographical focus of Surprised by Joy. Lewis initially used a pseudonym because he did not want readers to approach the book as a famous author’s public statement.

The date is often misremembered because Lewis and Davidman married in 1956, but she died four years later. A Grief Observed was published in 1961, making it a late work from the final period of Lewis’s life.