Jenny Diski: Novelist and Essayist Dies at 68
April 28, 2016
Jenny Diski was an English writer. Born Jennifer Simmonds on July 8, 1947, in London, she lived for a time with novelist Doris Lessing as a teenager.
She wrote novels, travel writing and memoirs and was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Her travel book Stranger on a Train won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the J. R. Ackerley Prize.
She wrote about her cancer in her last book, In Gratitude. Diski died of lung cancer on April 28, 2016, at age 68.
Achievements: Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (2003).
Birth: July 8, 1947 - London, England.
Profession: Writer.
Interesting Facts: She wrote about Doris Lessing in In Gratitude.