What was the title of C.S. Lewis’s 1961 book about grief after Joy Davidman’s death?

A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s 1961 book about grief after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman.

Lewis originally published the work under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. It consists of short reflections written during the period following Davidman’s death from cancer in 1960. The book records emotional pain, anger, doubt, memory, and the struggle to reconcile suffering with religious belief.

Unlike a conventional biography of Davidman, A Grief Observed is a personal spiritual journal. Lewis questions his own assumptions and examines how grief changes the way a bereaved person experiences both love and faith. Its directness has made it a frequently cited work on mourning.

The book is sometimes confused with The Problem of Pain, which Lewis published in 1940 as a theological discussion of suffering. The earlier work addresses the issue in general; A Grief Observed confronts grief as a fresh, personal experience.