It’s not the beginning of some joke. It’s how Englishman C.S. (Jack) Lewis and American Joy Davidman Gresham progressed during the 1950s from trans-Atlantic correspondence through acquaintance ...

It's too bad, for the comet of Joy Davidman's life was ... Long before C.S. Lewis entered the scene, she married William Gresham, a Spanish War veteran she met at a Communist Party gathering ...

Soon enough Lewis learns that Gresham, an American with whom he has been corresponding, will be visiting England with her eight-year-old son. The ever-quixotic Joy (a former Communist, a former ...

Only late in life did British author and literary scholar C.S. Lewis ... in the 1950s, Lewis described himself as “a comfortably situated, middle-aged bachelor” when he met Joy Gresham ...

Lewis’s wife ... experience and then the journey. Joy could have ignored the on-her-knees moment when her first husband [noir author William Lindsay Gresham] threatened suicide and she was ...

In 1946, Joy lives in Ossining, N.Y., with her alcoholic husband, Bill Gresham, and her two small ... she writes to Christian apologist C.S. Lewis with her questions about God.

Anthony Hopkins was highly convincing as the middle-aged Lewis, the thinking woman's crumpet for brash American poet Joy Gresham, played with gusto by Debra Winger. Joy began writing to Lewis ...

with Davidman dissatisfied with life as a conventional housewife and Gresham struggling with alcoholism. The couple dallied with Dianetics before Joy, already interested in C.S. Lewis’s writing ...