Snap # 12 – Diana Athill’s, “Somewhere Towards the End”

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

I’ve always believed that “fitting in” is way overrated and British editor and writer Diana Athill apparently is my soul mate to this thinking.

Now, if you’re under 60 years-of-age, this SNAP is not for you.  Click off this blog and return tomorrow for “French Fridays with Dorie”, (a great recipe).

Still with me?

Pick up “Somewhere Towards the End”, from your local library or Amazon ($11).  Winner of the Costa Award for Biography, the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller, this short, well-crafted tome is a critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging. Don’t be put off by the subject. Remember, Athill is a Brit and a woman you must meet.

Athill, now 93, and, in 2008, appointed by the Queen as an officer of the British Empire, is one of the great editors in British publishing. For more than five decades she edited such authors as V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer and John Updike. Ten years ago she turned from editor to writer and became a literary sensation.

British Editor and Author Diana Athill

Diana Athill’s mind (through words) will expand yours.