The catch? De Beauvoir and Beckett despised each other-and lived essentially on the same street. She wrote Samuel Beckett: A Biography, which went on to win the National Book Award and propel Deirdre to her next subject: Simone de Beauvoir. Battling an elusive Beckett and a string of jealous, misogynistic male writers, Bair persevered. The next seven years comprised of intimate conversations, intercontinental research, and peculiar cat-and-mouse games. He agreed that she could be his biographer despite her never having written-or even read-a biography before. who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist and recently minted Ph.D. Book Synopsis 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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