William Lindsay Gresham nació el 20 de agosto de 1909 en Baltimore, Maryland, Estados Unidos. Murió el 14 de septiembre de 1962 en Nueva York, Nueva York, EE.UU..
He was an alcoholic and abusive to his wife Joy Davidman, as well as to their children. Joy eventually fled to England with their children, where she conducted a long-term love affair with the author C.S. Lewis, whom she eventually married (their story was told in the film Shadowlands (1993)).
