Barbara Smith, Diana Athill’s cousin, was born in 1925. She is a former journalist and editor who worked for the Economist for an inordinate number of years covering, at various times, the Middle East, the United States and Books & Arts. She has three children and one grandson and lives in Norfolk.
Barbara Smith remembers her friend and cousin, Diana Athill.
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