When did critic and writer C. S. Lewis marry Joy Davidman?
C. S. Lewis married Joy Davidman in 1956.
She died of cancer in 1960, three years before Lewis’s own death in 1963.
Their story is told in Lewis’s A Grief Observed (1961).
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