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Diana Athill, winner of the 2008 Costa Biography Award
Diana Athill, winner of the 2008 Costa Biography Award, talks about her book, Somewhere Towards the...

Diana Athill

Diana Athill’s New York Times bestseller, Somewhere Towards the End, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The author of several memoirs, including Instead of a Letter and After a Funeral, Athill lives in London.

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Books by Diana Athill

  1. Book CoverAfter a Funeral: A Memoir


    A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.More

  2. Book CoverInstead of a Letter: A Memoir


    A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.More

  3. Book CoverLetters to a Friend


    This epistolary memoir—rich with Diana Athill's characteristic wit, humor, elegance and honesty—describes a warm, decades-long friendship.More

  4. Book CoverSomewhere Towards the End: A Memoir


    Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).More