Sheldon Vanauken [SEP] cause of death
New Oxford Review" and a frequent contributor to "Crisis" and "Southern Partisan" magazines, as well as to other periodicals and newspapers. He expressed sympathy for the Confederacy in his 1985 book, "The Glittering Illusion", although he was always critical of racism and slavery.
He remained an ardent Anglophile all his life, and often used British spelling and expressions in his writing.
Sheldon Vanauken died of lung cancer on October 28, 1996. His ashes were scattered in the churchyard of St. Stephen's
Sheldon Vanauken
Sheldon Vanauken (August 4, 1914 – October 28, 1996) was an American author, best known for his autobiographical book "A Severe Mercy" (1977), which recounts his and his wife's friendship with C. S. Lewis, their conversion to Christianity, and dealing with tragedy. He published a sequel in 1985 titled "Under the Mercy".
Early life.
Vanauken was born Sheldon Frank Van Auken in Auburn, Indiana, the elder of two sons of a wealthy attorney, (