"Letters to a Friend" is both an odd and interesting book. It is odd because Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field are entirely one-sided. He kept all of her letters for 30 years.

A renowned editor who was for many decades the guiding spirit at the prestigious London publishing house André Deutsch, Diana Athill has been enjoying a delicious second act as an author. Her ...

There is something terrifically comforting about a nonagenarian writing with clarity, wit and verve about getting old and facing death - as Diana Athill does in her new memoir, "Somewhere Towards the ...

Diana Athill, who edited 18 books of Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, had called some of his comments “ridiculous” and later wrote books on growing old, has passed away at the age of 101. Diana Athill, who ...

“Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter” (W.W. Norton & Co.), by Diana Athill Diana Athill, 98, still has a few things to teach us about growing old with dignity and humor and grace. Her latest ...

In a recent interview, Diana Athill, longtime British editor of such writers as Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Norman Mailer, Jean Rhys and John Updike, pondereds her mother’s objections to her own first ...

Diana Athill, an Englishwoman who wrote a series of critically lauded memoirs chronicling her romantic and sexual liaisons over much of the 20th century, but who attained international literary ...

Diana Athill points out, near the beginning of "Somewhere Towards the End," that "book after book has been written about being young, and even more of them about the elaborate and testing experiences ...

LONDON (AP) — Diana Athill, a writer and editor who honed the work of novelists including John Updike and Margaret Atwood before finding late-life fame as a frank and fearless memoirist, has died, her ...

Lena Dunham appraises the legacy of Diana Athill, who died last month, in this week’s issue. In 2001, the author Evelyn Toynton reviewed Athill’s memoir “Stet” for the Book Review. “I often wondered ...

Diana Athill, 98, still has a few things to teach us about growing old with dignity and humor and grace. Her latest memoir, “Alive, Alive Oh!” follows the unlikely literary celebrity she achieved at ...