![]() ![]() She died from metastatic carcinoma involving the bones in 1960. ![]() Lewis influenced her work and conversion and became her second husband after her permanent relocation to England in 1956. After a troubled marriage, and following her conversion to Christianity, they divorced and she left America to travel to England with her sons.ĭavidman published her best-known work, Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments, in 1954 with a preface by C. 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. She was the author of several books, including two novels. 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. ![]() Often referred to as a child prodigy, she earned a master's degree from Columbia University in English literature at age twenty in 1935. Helen Joy Davidman (18 April 1915 – 13 July 1960) was an American poet and writer. ![]()
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