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Diana Athill

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Diana Athill was a British literary editor, novelist, and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company André Deutsch Ltd.

She was born in Norfolk in 1917 and educated at home until she was fourteen. She read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and graduated in 1939. She spent the war years working at the BBC Overseas Service in the News Information Department. After the war, she met André Deutsch and fell into publishing. She worked as an editor, first at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch, until her retirement at the age of 75 in 1993.

Her books include An Unavoidable Delay, a collection of short stories published in 1962, and two 'documentary' books, After A Funeral and Make Belief. Stet is a memoir of Diana Athill's fifty-year career in publishing. Granta has also reissued a memoir, Instead of a Letter, and her only novel, Don't Look at Me Like That. She lived in Primrose Hill in London.

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