ABIGAIL SANTAMARIA
Author of I AM MEG: THE LIFE OF MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
and
JOY: POET, SEEKER, AND THE WOMAN
WHO CAPTIVATED C.S. LEWIS
"[An] impressive debut biography…”
—Kirkus
“This book gives Davidman her life back... Ms. Santamaria succeeds in de-mythologizing Davidman’s story.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Joy is a delightful combination of romantic quest and intellectual adventure...”
— Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the forthcoming Madam: The Notorious Life and Times of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
"Joy captures the toughness, the dreams, the hypocrisy, of a complex and controversial woman."
— BBC.com, One of Ten Books to Read in August
“Abigail Santamaria has written a luscious Narnia tale for grownups…”
— Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
“This brilliantly researched biography has changed me for good...”
— Walter Hooper, Secretary to C.S. Lewis, Literary Advisor to the C.S. Lewis Estate, and editor of The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis.