Yet One More Spring: A Critical Study of Joy Davidman

The first comprehensive study of a gifted but largely overlooked American writer

Joy Davidman (1915-1960) is probably best known today as the woman that C. S. Lewis married in the last decade of his life. But she was also an accomplished writer in her own right -- an award winning poet and a prolific book, theater, and film reviewer during the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Yet One More Spring is the first comprehensive critical study of Joy Davidman's poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. Don King studies her body of work -- including both published and unpublished works -- chronologically, tracing her development as a writer and revealing Davidman's literary influence on C. S. Lewis. King also shows how Davidman's work reflects her religious and intellectual journey from secular Judaism to atheism to Communism to Christianity.

Drawing as it does on a cache of previously unknown manuscripts of Davidman's work, Yet One More Spring brings to light the work of a very gifted but largely overlooked American writer.

Author: Don W. King
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 09/05/2015
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9780802869364
Award: Christianity Today Book Award - Award of Merit

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2015 pg. 79
CBA Retailers 12/01/2015 pg. 36
Choice 03/01/2016

About the Author
Don W. King is professor of English at Montreat College and editor of Christian Scholar's Review. He is also the editor of Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman, The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition, and A Naked Tree, the first complete collection of Joy Davidman's poetry, including forty-five love sonnets to C. S. Lewis.

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