Which C.S. Lewis book was published posthumously in 1964 as a meditation on grief?

A Grief Observed was published posthumously in 1964 as C.S. Lewis’s meditation on grief. Lewis wrote the book after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from cancer in 1960.

The work records anger, doubt, loneliness, and changing ideas about suffering and faith. It is structured as a series of reflections rather than as a conventional autobiography or systematic theological argument. The directness of its emotional language made it distinctive among Lewis’s religious writings.

Lewis originally published the book under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. The pseudonym helped keep attention away from his identity and allowed the text to be read without the expectations attached to a famous Christian author.

The book was first published in 1961 under that pseudonym, although it became widely identified with Lewis after his death. Its later title, A Grief Observed, is now the standard name. Readers sometimes connect it with The Problem of Pain, but the two books address suffering from very different perspectives.