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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