![]() 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. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. ' New York Times Book Reviewįinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2020 ![]() Wonderfully entertaining and absorbing' Sunday Times A The Times & Sunday Times Book of the Year ![]()
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