As co-founder of AndrĂ© Deutsch’s publishing house and editor there for five decades, Athill was the shepherd " “nanny” was her preferred term " for books by Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul and many others. Late in life, she won acclaim as an author herself, for a series of memoirs, […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:54AM on January 24, 2019