Diana Athill
Birth date: December 21, 1917
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bookshelves: dec-2015-free-for-all, nonfiction, radio-4, winter-20152016, autobiography-memoir, published-2016, those-autumn-years, essays, memento-mori Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from November 30 to December 12, 2015 BOTWhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06r4byzDescription: Steph...
A very nice, short book recounting the childhood of well-known editor, Diana Athill. Athill describes a very idyllic, very Edwardian childhood and family history, but she is funny and disarmingly straightforward. I knew she was my kind of lady when she described how her mother went for a sleep cure ...
Like her honesty and her factual attitude to life and writing. Gripped me from start to finish. Reminded me a little of Hans Fallada's observations and style of writing.There is an introduction to one of her memoirs (Instead of a letter) by Andrea Ashworth, who puts it better than I could:"Her langu...
The autobiography of an editor at a literary publishing house which was created soon after World War II.The book is divided into two halves, the first being an account of the rise and fall of the publishing house, and Athill's role in it (much of it focusing around the bullying of the publisher hims...
There is something sadly fitting about Smile Please ’s being an unfinished autobiography. According to her publisher Diana Athill in the volume's foreword, Rhys was reluctant to revisit in an autobiography painful aspects of her past that she had already treated in her novels. At the same time, Rhys...
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