DA
took a long time to recover from being jilted. One of the palliatives for her condition was short-term affairs which made her feel temporarily a little more alive. One of her lovers, a man...
Family and Intimate relationships
Diana Athill
In 1969 DA
began an involvement which was partly sexual with another man who was equally out of place in her milieu: Hakim Jamal
, a radical African-American writer whom she met in connection with...
Textual Production
Diana Athill
In Make Believe: A True StoryDA
again traced the course of an extraordinary literary and erotic relationship: this time with Hakim Jamal
(born Alan Donaldson
), a follower of Malcolm X
, another writer...
