RIP Jenny Diski

April 28, 2016 | 1

Jenny Diski, a prolific author who’d kept up a serialized diary of living with cancer since 2014, died this morning at the age of 68. Her partner, Ian Patterson, broke the news on Twitter, after which outlets including The Guardian confirmed it. The author had recently published her final book, a memoir.

is a staff writer for The Millions. He lives in New York.