Diana Athill

““There is a sense throughout Athill’s work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a new story.””

— Observer

© Mark Crick

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. She is the author of eight volumes of memoirs – Stet, Instead of a Letter, After a Funeral, Yesterday Morning, Make Believe, Somewhere Towards the End, A Florence Diary and Alive, Alive Oh! – a collection of letters, Instead of a Book, and a novel, Don’t Look At Me Like That, all published by Granta, as well as a collection of short stories, Midsummer Night in the Workhouse (Persephone). 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.

We represent Diana Athill’s Literary Estate

Published works