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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth. In a celebration of her life and writing, Life Class brings together four of her best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanning her very English childhood, her life and loves during World War II, her publishing career at André Deutsch, and her reflections on old age. Introduced by Ian Jack, Diana Athills selected memoirs are a remarkable testament to an unusual and fully lived life. Zusammenfassung 'A vital account of being a woman in the 20th century ... chronicles the growth of a woman from a privileged childhood of horses and country estates to a middle-class existence in Andre Deutsch's publishing house and love affairs! to a late contemplation on old age. The prose is breathtaking! and the honesty exhilarating' Independent on Sunday
