![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her seven-year relationship with the domineering and difficult de Beauvoir required a radical change in approach, yielding another groundbreaking literary profile. While quite literally dodging one subject or the other, and sometimes hiding out in the backrooms of the great caf�s of Paris, Bair learned that what works in terms of process for one biography rarely applies to the next. The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other - and lived essentially on the same street. The next seven years of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games resulted in Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never having written - or even read - a biography herself. A story well told.' New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday Times 'Gripping. A The Times & Sunday Times Literary Nonfiction Book of the Year 'Fascinating. ![]()
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