Diana Athill

Diana Athill (1917–2019) was a British literary editor, novelist, and memoirist best known for her candid memoirs such as Stet: An Editor's Life, Somewhere Towards the End, and Instead of a Letter, which chronicled her career at André Deutsch Ltd. where she edited authors like V.S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys, and her personal life. She won the Costa Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for Somewhere Towards the End (2008), and was appointed OBE for services to literature.