Which C.S. Lewis book was published in 1961 after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman?

A Grief Observed was published in 1961 after the death of C.S. Lewis’s wife, Joy Davidman. Lewis first published the book under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk.

The short work records Lewis’s changing responses to bereavement, including anger, doubt, loneliness, and reflection. Davidman died of cancer on 13 July 1960, and Lewis wrote the original notebooks during the period that followed her death.

The book is not a conventional biography of Davidman or a systematic theological treatise. Its intimate, searching style led readers to connect it directly with Lewis’s own grief. The pseudonym initially concealed the author’s identity, but the work was later openly recognized as Lewis’s.