LA BREA grandmother Peggyann Athill was about to get dressed to attend the funeral of a friend when she came face to face with a cutlass-wielding bandit in her home on Monday. As the armed ...
We don’t have to look far to see how rare it is, nowadays, for people to communicate by putting pen to paper. It is not only those born into the computer age who don’t think of doing it. Even very old ...
This autobiography starts with a boy's love for his mother, so beautifully evoked that when she dies of cancer it is heartbreaking. Not that he was supposed to feel it so deeply. Her unselfishness, ...
Jowato Athill and Adiva Collins appeared in the High Court yesterday where their bail application was heard in open court before Justice Tunde Bakre. Athill and Collins were arrested on September ...
It’s 30 years since playwright Dennis Potter, dying of cancer, reflected on his life in the company of Melvyn Bragg. Subsequently, others have similarly granted ‘last interviews’, including Clive ...
Hungarian-born publisher; in 1951 with Diana Athill he set up André Deutsch Ltd, an independent publishing house that maintained its position in the market until the 1980s. The firm discovered and ...
As if all this were not bliss enough, Diana Athill wrote the introduction to the first edition. Dance to the music of time? Speaking of E.T.A. Hoffman, you may not be able to see the New York City ...
With Professor of Computer Science Gary Parker as her research adviser over the summer, as well as assistance from Jim O’Connor ’13, who helps run Parker’s Autonomous Agent Learning Lab, Goyette built ...