Diana Athill helped shape some of the most celebrated books in modern literature. For nearly five decades, she edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) writers including Jean Rhys, V. S. Naipaul and Philip Roth. From the pleasures, intrigues and complexities of a life spent among authors and manuscripts to an account of Diana's own turn to writing, this is the story of an illustrious career.
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Weight: 183g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 02 Dec 2021
Publisher: Granta Books
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781783787463
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. Athill's distinguished career as an editor is the subject of her acclaimed memoir Stet. She is the author of seven further volumes of memoirs Instead of a Letter After a Funeral Yesterday Morning Make Believe Somewhere Towards the End Alive Alive Oh! A Florence Diary and a collection of letters Instead of a Book all published by Granta. Her only novel Don't Look At Me Like That was first published in 1967. 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.