Make Believe - A True Story

Diana Athill's fascinating analysis of her relationshup with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal whose book, From the Dead Level: Malcolm X and Me, she edited in the 1960s. Against all odds, they became friends, sometimes lovers.

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

Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Athill, Diana (Y) Athill, Athill Diana
• Assisted by: French Patrick (Introduction)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781783787449
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-744-9
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 119 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Autobiography: literary, Autobiography: writers, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional