Make believe

Description:

In *Make Believe*, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of *Instead of a Letter* and *Stet*, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.

subjects: Biography,  Friends and associates,  Women editors,  African Americans,  Death and burial,  Motion picture actors and actresses,  Vermont, biography,  Seberg, jean, 1938-1979,  Editors,  Women, great britain,  Women, biography,  African americans, biography,  Motion picture actors and actresses, united states

People: Diana Athill,  Hakim Jamal (1933-),  Hakim A. Jamal (1931-),  Jean Seberg

Places: Great Britain,  United States