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Joy Davidman
Helen Joy Davidman was an American poet and writer. Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature at age twenty in 1935. For her book of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1938 and the Russell Loines Award for Poetry in 1939. She was the author of several books, including two novels. While an atheist and after becoming a member of the American Communist Party, she met and married her first husband and father of her two sons, William Lindsay Gresham, in 1942. After a troubled marriage, and following her conversion to Christianity, they divorced and she left America to travel to England with her sons. Davidman published her best known work, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, in 1954 with a preface by C. S. Lewis. Lewis influenced her work and conversion, and became her second husband after her permanent relocation to England in 1956.
BornHelen Joy Davidman, April 18, 1915, New York City, U.S.
DiedJuly 13, 1960, Oxford, England
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPoet, author
Known forSmoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, life with CS Lewis
Children2, including Douglas Gresham

About Joy Davidman

Novelist Joy Davidman was born on April 18, 1915 in New York, United States (She dies at the age of 45, on July 13, 1960).

She was the wife of author Children's Author C.S. Lewis and a published author in her own right. Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments in Today's Terms (1954) and Weeping Bay are two of her works (1950).

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Joy Davidman before becoming famous

Joy Davidman was born in the Zodiac sign Aries (The Ram), and 1915 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rabbit (兔).

She was a genius as a child, graduating from high school at the age of fourteen. She went on to Hunter College and Columbia University after that.

Achievement of Joy Davidman

Children's Author C.S. Lewis wrote about her after she died in his memoir, A Grief Observed, which he published under a pen name.

Joy Davidman's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She and her second husband, Children's Author C.S. Lewis, collaborated on literary projects together. She had previously been married to another well-known author, William Lindsay Gresham.

Joy Davidman Collabed with

Shadowlands, a film based on Davidman's time with Children's Author C.S. Lewis, starred Movie Actress Debra Winger as Davidman.

Joy Davidman Income & Net worth

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