Stet - An Editor's Life

Fresh re-issue of Diana Athill's candid memoir of a life spent working as an editor of some of the most celebrated writers of the post war generation.

About the author

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.

Summary

Fresh re-issue of Diana Athill's candid memoir of a life spent working as an editor of some of the most celebrated writers of the post war generation.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Athill, Diana (Y) Athill, Athill Diana
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781783787463
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-746-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 183 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs