DA
's various memoirs mention too many friends to list them all here. She became a good friend of some of her authors: Jean Rhys
, for instance, and V. S. Naipaul
(with whom there...
Occupation
Diana Athill
She embarked on art classes, continued writing (and gardening and other hobbies), and acquired her first laptop computer in 2003, under the persuasion of Edward Field
and Neil Derrick
. This second-hand model was soon...
Textual Production
Diana Athill
In Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend, DA
selected, introduced, and annotated a hundred letters written to the US poet Edward Field
and his partner, Neil Derrick
, between 1981 and 2007.
