Lewis wasn’t the sort who would go back on a promise made to a fallen friend. One of the Human Characters Was Probably Based on a Woman Lewis Lived With. Refusing payment, he insisted that a fund dedicated to the widows of Church of England clergymen receive this money instead. The Guardian offered Lewis two pounds per letter. The Newspaper Proceeds Helped a Charitable Cause. Readers devoured them en masse, and before long, publisher Geoffrey Bles converted Lewis’ series into a book. Every week, another hellish correspondence would appear, until the last one hit the stands on November 28. Having already submitted material to a now-defunct Anglican gazette called The Guardian, Lewis was in good standing with its editor, who released the first “Screwtape Letter” on May 2, 1941.
Originally, These Dispatches Ran as a Serial. Inspired, the author worked at breakneck speed, frequently knocking out an entire letter in one sit-down session. In July 1940, Lewis came up with the idea of a senior demon named Screwtape mailing trade secrets and frank pointers to his greenhorn nephew, Wormwood, who has been charged with corrupting a human soul. It Took Lewis A Little Over Six Months to Write All 31 Letters. Here are 12 little-known facts about The Screwtape Letters, its development, and its enduring impact. Lewis’s most popular non-Narnia novel is a delicious, perceptive treatise on the weaknesses of human nature.
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