Which C.S. Lewis book about grief followed the death of his wife, Joy Davidman?

A Grief Observed is the C.S. Lewis book about grief after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman. It was published in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk.

Davidman died of cancer in July 1960. Lewis’s short, intensely personal book records his anger, doubt, loneliness, and changing understanding of mourning. Rather than presenting a polished theological argument, it follows the unsettled experience of a bereaved person.

The book’s original pseudonym led some early readers to assume that its author was someone other than Lewis. Lewis’s identity was later publicly associated with the work, and subsequent editions used his name.

A Grief Observed is often contrasted with The Problem of Pain, which was published in 1940 and treats suffering in a more systematic apologetic form. The two books address related themes but come from very different emotional and literary situations.