Which C.S. Lewis work is written as a memoir of grief after his wife's death?

C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed is a memoir of grief after his wife's death.

Lewis first published the book in 1961 under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk. It records the emotional and spiritual turmoil he experienced after the death of his wife, Joy Davidman, from cancer in 1960. The short work takes the form of intensely personal reflections rather than a conventional biography or theological treatise.

The pseudonym initially concealed Lewis's identity, and later editions identified him as the author. Readers sometimes confuse the book with The Problem of Pain, which is a broader earlier examination of suffering and was published in 1940. A Grief Observed is instead rooted in one particular bereavement and openly questions how religious belief feels under personal loss.