July 8, 1947

Jenny Diski (July 8, 1947) is a British writer, and an amazing talent. She has written novels but it is her book reviews and memoir segments in the London Review of Books that caught my attention. As an abused and abandoned child being treated in a psychiatric hospital she came to the attention of Doris Lessing. Actually it was Lessing's son who asked his mother to invite Diski into their household. This amazing story can barely hold the other hardly believable turns in her life. The fact is, her unique insights are their own corroboration. There is just some stuff you cannot make up.

Diski now has, besides her genius, and a bizarre genetic ability to persevere,  a husband, (a poet at Oxford University), a daughter, a cat, and a grim prognosis. There is some of her writing available for free at the London Review of Books.  She is one of two people I would pick for a fame of the ages.