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Somewhere towards the end a memoir

An esteemed memoirist and one of the great editors in British publishing examines aging with the grace of Elegy for Iris and the wry irreverence of I Feel Bad About My Neck.

Main Author:	Athill, Diana.
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W. W. Norton, 2009.
Subjects:	Athill, Diana. Old age. Aging. Editors > Great Britain > Biography. Women editors > Great Britain > Biography. Authors, English > 20th century > Biography. Women authors, English > 20th century > Biography.

Summary:	An esteemed memoirist and one of the great editors in British publishing examines aging with the grace of Elegy for Iris and the wry irreverence of I Feel Bad About My Neck.
Item Description:	Originally published in Great Britain by Granta Publications, 2008.
Physical Description:	182 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN:	9780393338003 0393338002
Author Notes:	Diana Athill was born in England on December 21, 1917. She was educated at Oxford University. During World War II, she as a researcher with the BBC. She worked as an editor at Allan Wingate and then at André Deutsch. Athill started writing autobiography in her early 40s. Her memoir, Instead of a Letter, was published in 1962. Her other memoirs included After a Funeral; Make Believe; Alive, Alive Oh!; Stet; Yesterday Morning; and A Florence Diary. Somewhere Towards the End won a Costa Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works included a volume of short stories entitled An Unavoidable Delay and a novel entitled Don't Look at Me Like That. She was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2009. She died on January 23, 2019 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography)

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