Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter

About Diana Athill

DIANA ATHILL was born in 1917. She helped André Deutsch establish the publishing company that bore his name and worked as an editor for Deutsch for four decades. She is the author of eight volumes of memoirs - Stet Instead of a Letter After a Funeral Yesterday Morning Make Believe Somewhere Towards the End Alive Alive Oh! A Florence Diary - a collection of letters Instead of a Book and a novel Don't Look At Me Like That all published by Granta as well as a collection of short stories Midsummer Night in the Workhouse (Persephone Books). In January 2009 she won the Costa Biography Award for Somewhere Towards the End and was presented with an OBE. She died in January 2019.