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A New York Times Notable Book: This memoir of a career in book publishing “should please anyone who cares about twentieth-century literature” ( The Washington Post Book World ).   For nearly five decades, Diana Athill edited (nursed, coerced, coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language, among them V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, John Updike, Jean Rhys, Mordecai Richler, Molly Keane, and Norman Mailer. A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house André Deuts