![]() ![]() Where Beckett had been retiring and elusive, Beauvoir was domineering and all encompassing. ![]() The next seven years of probing conversations, intercontinental research, singular encounters with Beckett's friends, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Bair to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written a biography before. ![]() who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and a recently minted Ph.D. A PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portraits of two literary giants and revealing secrets of the biographical art. ![]()
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