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(1915-1960) Poet, author. Joy Davidman was born in New York City and died in Oxford, England.

Full Name

Joy Davidman

Locations

Bronx

Author's Timeline


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RESIDENCE

As a child, Ms. Davidman lived in the Bronx, New York.

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OTHER

Ms. Davidman studied at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York.

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OTHER

Ms. Davidman studied at Evander Childs High School in the Bronx, New York.

1915

BIRTH

Joy Davidman was born Helen Joy Davidman, in New York City on April 18, 1915.

1935

OTHER

Ms. Davidman received a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1935.

1938

LITWORK

Letter to a Comrade
Yale University Press

Collection of poetry.

1940

LITWORK

Anya
The Macmillan Company

Novel.

1950

LITWORK

Weeping Bay
Macmillan

Novel.

1954

LITWORK

Smoke on the Mountain: An Interpretation of the Ten Commandments
Westminster Press

Nonfiction.

1960

DEATH

Joy Davidman died in Oxford, England, on July 13, 1960.

2009

LITWORK

Out of My Bone: The Letters of Joy Davidman
William B. Eerdmans
978-0-8028-6399-7
Letters.

2015

LITWORK

A Naked Tree: Love Sonnets to C. S. Lewis and Other Poems
William B. Eerdmans
978-0-8028-7288-3
Collection of poetry.

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