Title: 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
Places: Great Britain, United States
People: Diana Athill, Hakim Jamal (1933-), Hakim A. Jamal (1931-), Jean Seberg