Douglas Gresham (born November 10, 1945) is a British biographer and film producer, resident in Malta, and one of the two heirs to the literary work of C. S. Lewis, including the Narnia series.
Gresham was born in New York City, the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham and Joy Davidman. After his parents divorced in 1952, his mother relocated to England with her two sons.
Joy had become friends with C.S. Lewis through correspondence, and the fr...
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Douglas Gresham (born November 10, 1945) is a British biographer and film producer, resident in Malta, and one of the two heirs to the literary work of C. S. Lewis, including the Narnia series.
Gresham was born in New York City, the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham and Joy Davidman. After his parents divorced in 1952, his mother relocated to England with her two sons.
Joy had become friends with C.S. Lewis through correspondence, and the friendship blossomed, eventually leading to marriage in 1956. After Gresham's mother lost a battle with cancer in 1960, Lewis, who had adopted Douglas and his elder brother David in 1956, continued to raise them (The Horse and His Boy is dedicated to them both), and when Lewis died, his estate, including the rights to the popular Chronicles of Narnia, went to them. Douglas Gresham acknowledged in a November 15, 2005 interview on NPR that he and his brother are estranged, although in a December 4, 2005, interview, he did say they are in email...
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