Which C.S. Lewis book was written under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk?

C.S. Lewis wrote A Grief Observed under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk.

The book was published in 1961 and reflects on Lewis’s grief after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from cancer. It is presented as a direct, questioning record of bereavement rather than as a conventional autobiography.

Lewis initially used the pseudonym partly to avoid having readers approach the work as a statement by a famous Christian author. The book’s candid treatment of anger, doubt, pain, and faith differs in tone from some of his more systematic apologetic writing.

The pseudonym can cause confusion because many Lewis books were published under his familiar initials. A Grief Observed was later identified with Lewis and became one of his most widely read reflections on mourning and religious uncertainty.